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“A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.”
Edward Gibbon quotes (English Historian, 1737-1794)

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“If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account to that.”
Thomas Carlyle quotes (Scottish Historian and Essayist, leading figure in the Victorian era. 1795-1881)

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“In every deed of mischief he [Comenus] had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.”
Edward Gibbon quotes (English Historian, 1737-1794)

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“Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!”
Thomas Carlyle quotes (Scottish Historian and Essayist, leading figure in the Victorian era. 1795-1881)
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“How can you contrive to write so even?”
Jane Austen quotes (British Novelist and Writer, 1775-1817)
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“War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.”
Niccolo Machiavelli quotes (Italian writer and statesman, Florentine patriot, author of 'The Prince', 1469-1527)
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“This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought. Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land. Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.”
Aristophanes quotes (The greatest representative of ancient Greek comedy, 450-385 BC)
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“The greatest problem with women is how to contrive that they should seem our equals”
Cyril Connolly quotes (English critic and editor, 1903-1974)
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“If you must commit suicide... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.”
George Borrow quotes

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“Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.”
Edmund Burke quotes (British Statesman and Philosopher, 1729-1797)
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