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It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson 
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Brief is life but love is long.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better
by all parties to leave the past to history,
especially as I propose to write that history myself.
- Winston Churchill
I care not much for a man's religion
whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
- Abraham Lincoln
The time-traveling is just too dangerous.
Better that I devote myself to study
the other great mystery of the universe - women!
- the movie Back to the Future II
Money is better than poverty,
if only for financial reasons.
- Woody Allen
I always avoid prophesying beforehand,
because it is a much better policy to prophesy
after the event has already taken place.
- Winston Churchill
Really I feel less keen about the Army every day.
I think the Church would suit me better.
- Winston Churchill
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
- Neil Young
Today is probably a good day for something;
but it's a better day for doing nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People living their lives for you on TV;
They say they're better than you, and you agree.
- Jewel
I love to shop after a bad relationship.
I don't know. I buy a new outfit
and it makes me feel better. It just does.
Sometimes I see a really great outfit,
I'll break up with someone on purpose.
- Rita Rudner
I think men who have a pierced ear
are better prepared for marriage.
They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
- Rita Rudner
Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper
is that your guests are so pleased
to feel how very much better they are.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Money can't buy friends
but it can get you a better class of enemy.
- Spike Milligan
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool,
than to speak and remove all doubt.
- sometimes attributed to Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, or Samuel Johnson
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
The man who reads nothing at all
is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
- Thomas Jefferson
As a cure for worrying,
work is better than whiskey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
Balance good, karate good. Everything good.
Balance bad, better pack up, go home. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Maybe I could have loved you better.
Maybe you should have loved me more.
Maybe our hearts were just next in line.
Maybe everything breaks sometime.
- Jewel
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy
between the genius and his human qualities
that one has to ask oneself whether
a little less talent might not have been better.
- Carl Jung
How could youths better learn to live
than by at once trying the experiment of living?
- Henry David Thoreau
At the end of a matter ask,
"What will I learn from this to make me better?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
Because we believe that our ethnic group,
our society, our political party, our God,
is better than your God, we kill each other.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
How many things there are concerning which we might
well deliberate whether we had better know them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that
it is better for hard words to be on paper
than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
- Anne Frank
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
Never mind what others do;
do better than yourself,
beat your own record from day to day,
and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett
Just smiling goes a long way toward
making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
- Albert Camus
He who stops being better, stops being good.
- Oliver Cromwell
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words
than words without a heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Better do a good deed near at home
than go far away to burn incense.
- Amelia Earhart
Hate destroys, Love builds.
Hate tears down, Love renews and creates.
Hatred holds no hope for the future.
Love creates Today as its own better future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
Every creature is better alive than dead,
men and moose and pine trees,
and he who understands it aright
will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
- Henry David Thoreau
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
It is any day better to stand erect
with a broken and bandaged head
then to crawl on one's belly,
in order to be able to save one's head.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith is much better than belief.
Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
Build a better mousetrap
and the world will beat a path to your door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I release the familiar that I may better discover my inspiring future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau
All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Look deep into nature, and then
you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein
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