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«Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality . Wake Up and Live!»

Author: Bob Marley (Composer, Guitarist, Singer) | About: Jealousy, Life | Keywords: bury, complicate, flee, lots, mischief, riding, Road signs, ruts, rutting, signs, wake up

«Rulers have no authority from God to do mischief»

Author: Jonathan Mayhew | Keywords: authority, mischief, rulers

«Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue»

Author: Ben Jonson (Dramatist, Poet) | Keywords: mischief, prospered

«Oh Diamond! Diamond! Thou little knowest the mischief done! (Said to a pet dog who knocked over a candle and set fire to his papers»

Author: Isaac Newton (Mathematician, Physicist) | Keywords: diamond, knocked, mischief, papers, PET

«Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.»

Author: Bible | Keywords: ancients, come upon, counsel, mischief, priest, prophet, rumour, The Prophet

«That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.»

Author: Benjamin Disraeli (Novelist, Prime Minister) | Keywords: afloat, conquerors, disturbed, equilibrium, liberties, mischief, occasioned, political liberty, recall, ruthless, welfare

«There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief /a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.»

Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | Keywords: babies, bills, causing, comprehend, crush, downy, engage, heads of state, head of state, inability, mammal, mammals, mischief, noises, orders, Orders of, Order of, ripple, ripples, rippling, state of mind, styles, throws, toddle, toddles, toddling

«Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief»

Author: Honore de Balzac (Novelist) | About: Love | Keywords: mischief, street arab

«See what it is to play unfair!Where cheating is, there's mischief there.»

Author: William Blake (Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet) | Keywords: cheating, cheat on, Cheat The, mischief, unfair

«O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!»

Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: desperate, mischief, swift

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