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201. Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.

202. Enjoy the present smiling hour. And put it out of Fortune's power.

203. Enjoy the spring of love and youth, To some good angel leave the rest; For time will teach thee soon the truth, There are no birds in last year's nest.

204. Enjoy things while you can.

205. Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldst really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

206. Enjoy what you can, endure what you must. Goethe

207. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.

208. Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think. Chinese Proverb

209. Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.

210. Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. --Thomas Jefferson

211. Enlightenment comes from knowing it's okay to be dumb!

212. Enlightenment has no definite form or nature by which it can manifest itself, so in Enlightenment itself, there is nothing to be enlightened.

213. Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

214. Enough is as good as a feast.

215. Enough research will tend to support your theory - Murphy's Law of Research

216. Enough shovels of earth..........................a mountain. Enough pails of water...............................a river.

217. Enough! or Too much

218. Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

219. Enter by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is easy, that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard, that leads to life, and those who find it are few.

220. Enthusiasm for what is good and great is the noblest condition the heart can know, a disposition in which it were well if it could continually abide. ---(A. R. VINET).

221. Enthusiasm is like a ripple in the water . . . it spreads.

222. Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.

223. Enthusiasm is the mother of effort... Enthusiasm...the sustaining power of all great action.

224. Entropy isn't what it used to be.

225. Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.

226. ENVY always shoots at a high mark.

227. Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.

228. Envy is an admission of inferiority.

229. Envy is destroyed by true friend-ship, and coquetry by true love. ---(ROCHEFOUCAULD).

230. Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

231. Envy is like a fly that passes all a body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.

232. Envy is littleness of soul.

233. Envy is the adversary of the fortunate.

234. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner of secret sedition, and the perpetual tormenter of virtue.

235. Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism; and when we reflect on the strange and disproportioned character of the parent, we cannot wonder at the perversity and waywardness of the child.

236. Envy is the filthy slime of the soul; a venom, a poison, or quicksilver which consumeth the flesh, and drieth up the marrow of the bones.

237. ENVY never dies.

238. Envy never enriched any man.

239. Envy not greatness: for thou makest thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.

240. Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the heart of man; for the goods of this present world are so vile and low that they are beneath it; and those of the future world are so vast and exalted that they are above it.

241. Envy shoots at others and wounds herself.

242. Envy will merit, as its shade pursue, but like a shadow, proves the substance true.

243. Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of the love of justice in it.

244. Envy, like flame, soars upwards.

245. Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

246. Envy, to which the ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learned or brave.

247. Enzymes are things invented by biologists that explain things which otherwise require harder thinking.

248. Epilepsy has me in fits.

249. Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. -- Laurence J. Peter

250. Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.

251. Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it.

252. Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. - Honore de Balzac

253. Equality used to be just that. Equality. Treating everyone equally, alike. These days that's not it at all. Equality now means discrimination disguised as ideals; it means preferential treatment for special interest groups, including women. We should start to think about this while we are still allowed to.

254. Equestrians ask too many questions.

255. Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.

256. Ere you consult your fancy, consult your purse. --Benjamin Franklin

257. Error is always in haste

258. Error is discipline through which we advance. --William Ellery Channing

259. Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to admit it. --Thomas Jefferson

260. Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; ---He who would search for pearls,must dive below. ---(DRYDEN).

261. Errror is discipline through which we advance.

262. Eschatology will be the death of me.

263. Eschew obfuscation.

264. Especially do not feign affection.

265. Essence in man is what is his own.

266. Essentially, you do not so much teach your cat as bribe him.

267. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them.

268. Estate agents have two types of house. The ones you don't want and the ones you can't afford.

269. Estridge's Law: No matter how large and standardized the marketplace is, IBM can redefine it.

270. Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

271. Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands. --Mark Twain

272. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. --Thomas Jefferson

273. Eternity is the infinite existence of every moment of time. If we conceive time as a line, then this line will be crossed at every point by the lines of eternity. Every point of the line of time will be a line in eternity. The line of time will be a plane of eternity. Eternity has one dimension more than time.

274. Ethernet (n): something used to catch the etherbunny.

275. Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good ;consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.--Albert Schweitzer

276. Etymology, n.:Some early etymological scholars come up with derivations that were hard for the public to believe. The term etymology was formed from the Latin etus (eaten), the root mal (bad), and logy (study of). It meant the study of things that are hard to swallow.

277. Eulogy: Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

278. Eunuchs unite - you have nothing to lose.

279. Even a blind pig in a blizzard finds an acorn once in a while.

280. Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. Polish Proverb

281. Even a fly hath its spleen.

282. Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue. Miscellaneous Prover

283. Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.
284. --Proverbs 17:28 RSV

285. Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise.

286. Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

287. Even a mosquito doesn't get a slap on the back until it starts to work.

288. Even a short pencil is more reliable then the longest memory.

289. Even a small star shines in the darkness.

290. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. -- Anonymous

291. Even a tin knocker will shine on a dirty door

292. Even a worm will turn.

293. Even an ant may harm an elephant.

294. Even as a caterpillar, when coming to an end of a blade of grass, reaches out to another blade of grass and draws itself over to it, in the same way the Soul, leaving the body and unwisdom behind, reaches out to another body and draws itself over to it.

295. Even as a great fish swims along the two banks of a river, first along the eastern bank and then the western bank, in the same way the Spirit of man moves along beside his two dwellings: this waking world and the land of sleep and dreams.

296. Even as the needle that directs the hour, (Touched with the loadstone) by the secret power Of hidden Nature, points upon the pole; Even so the wavering powers of my soul, Touched by the virtue of Thy spirit, flee From what is earth, and point alone to Thee.

297. Even bargains cost money.

298. Even brute beats and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or net twice.

299. Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense. Mignon McLaughlin

300. Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them. -- Thomas Fuller


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