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I always write a good first line, but I have trouble in writing the others.
Writers and Writing
Moliere

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The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example.
Example
Thomas Morell

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The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
Goals
John Pierpont Morgan

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You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it.
Imagination
Alex Morrison

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It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.
Ideas
J. Richard Munro

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The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.
Mistakes
Kimon Nicolaides

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Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.
Paradise
Friedrich Nietzsche

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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
Vision
Earl Nightingale

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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
Medicine
Florence Nightingale

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The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
Doctors
Sir William Osler

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.
Truth
Mal Pancoast

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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.
Habit
Blaise Pascal

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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
Books - Reading
Blaise Pascal

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The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.
Writers and Writing
Blaise Pascal

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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.
Belief
Norman Vincent Peale

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.
Success
Laurence J. Peter

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.
God
Petronius

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First appearance deceives many.
Appearance
Phaedrus

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To betray you must first belong.
Betrayal
Harold Philby

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If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
Causes
Wendell Phillips

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
Failure
Wendell Phillips

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
Action
Pablo Picasso

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The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
Self-improvement
Robert M. Pirsig

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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.
Control
Plato

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This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Titus Maccius Plautus

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun