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601. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it. In the clamour in which we live, love is impossible and justice does not suffice."--Albert Camus (1913-1960)

602. For virtue only finds eternal Fame.

603. For want of a nail the shoe is lost; for want of a shoe the horse is lost; for want of a horse the rider is lost.

604. For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost; being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for want of care about a horse-shoe nail.

605. For want of company, welcome trumpery.

606. For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross-grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self-control.

607. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail? --Ralph Waldo Emerson

608. For what cannot be cured patience is best

609. For what has made the sage or poet write But the fair paradise of Nature's light.

610. For what human ill does dawn not seem to be an alternative?--Thornton Wilder (1897-1975)

611. For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

612. For what is love itself, for the one we love best?--an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

613. For what this whirlwind all a flame? This thunderstroke of hellish ire, Setting the universe afire? While millions upon millions came Into a very storm of war? For a scrap of paper.

614. For when the One Great Scorer comes To write against your name, He marks - not that you won or lost - But how you played the game.

615. For whoever contemplates a crime is guilty of the deed.

616. For whom the bell tolls.. TIME MARCHES ON

617. For you see, each day I ove you more, Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.

618. For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.

619. Forbearance is no acquittance.

620. Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life. -- --Elbert Hubbard

621. Forbid a thing, and that we will do.

622. Forbidden - Invested with new and terrible charm. - Ambrose Bierce (from The Devil's Dictionary)

623. Forbidden fruit is responsible for many a bad jam

624. Forbidden FRUIT is sweet.

625. Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

626. Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses force.

627. Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. --Abraham Lincoln

628. Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.

629. Force is not a remedy. --John Bright

630. Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

631. Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force. --Blaise Pascal

632. Force, that is to say, physical force (for no moral force exists apart from the conception of a state and law), is the means; to impose our will upon the enemy is the object. To achieve this object with certainty we must disarm the enemy, and this disarming is by definition the proper aim of military action.

633. Forecast for Wedding...Expected development of warm front, with extreme turbulence and moisture in lower regions. Good possibility of six inches overnight. Sun (son) is expected later on.

634. Foreign Aid - taxing poor people in rich countries for the benefit of rich people in poor countries.

635. Foresake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

636. Foresight is knowing when to shut your mouth before someone suggests it.

637. Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

638. Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy. - Mark Twain

639. Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. Chinese Proverb

640. Forget not on every occasion to ask thyself, is this not one of the unnecessary things?

641. Forget the past and live the present hour. Sarah Knowles Bolton

642. Forgetful youth! but know, the Power above With ease can save each object of his love; Wide as his will, extends his boundless grace.

643. Forgetfulness, n.:A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

644. Forgetting a debt does not pay it.

645. FORGIVE all but thyself.

646. Forgive and forget.

647. Forgive any sooner than thyself.

648. Forgive but never forget!!

649. Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. --Ausonius

650. Forgive me father, for I have sinned.

651. Forgive others as you would forgive yourself.

652. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf.

653. Forgive your enemies but never forget their names.

654. Forgive, but never forget. John F. Kennedy

655. Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me. -- Robert Frost

656. Forgiveness is like the fragrance a flower gives after it's been stepped on.

657. Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

658. Form disciplines force with a merciless severity.

659. Form follows function, and often obliterates it.

660. Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not be tasteless to thee.

661. Formality breeds contempt.

662. Formerly a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary to keep him properly in the public eye.

663. Formula for success: underpromise and overdeliver.

664. Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit Perhaps it will be pleasing sometime to have remembered these things, from The Aeneid

665. Fortify yourself with moderation; for this is an impregnable fortress.

666. Fortis fortuna adiuvat. Fortune assists the brave

667. Fortiter in re, suaviter in modo.-Strong in action, gentle in method.

668. Fortress: A female fort.

669. Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactely the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.--Peter Mere Latham

670. Fortunately for themselves and the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the ``courage of their convictions.''

671. Fortune and love favor the brave.

672. Fortune befriends the bold. --John Dryden

673. Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

674. Fortune can take from us nothing but what she gave us.

675. Fortune favors the bold. Virgil

676. Fortune favours fools.

677. FORTUNE favours the brave (bold).

678. Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

679. Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

680. Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us. Vincent Voiture

681. Fortune is a shadow upon a wall.

682. Fortune is a woman, and therefore friendly to the young, who with audacity command her.

683. Fortune is blind and makes blind.

684. FORTUNE is blind.

685. Fortune is brittle as glass, and when she is most refulgent, she is often most unexpectedly broken.

686. Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry. --Oliver Goldsmith

687. Fortune is like glass.

688. Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken. Publius Syrus

689. Fortune is like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

690. FORTUNE is made of glass.

691. Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.

692. Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave. --James Russell Lowell

693. FORTUNE is variant.

694. Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her. --Mark Twain

695. Fortune knocks once at least at every man's gate.

696. Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.

697. Fortune presents gifts not according to the book.

698. Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

699. Fortune!There is no fortune; all is trial, or punishment, or recompense, or foresight.

700. Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followers: To some she gives honor without deserving; To other some, deserving without honor; Some wit, some wealth, - and some, wit without wealth; Some wealth without wit; some nor wit nor wealth.


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