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Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof. -- Aeschylus
Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not. -- Pierre Corneille
Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing. -- Franz Liszt
The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival. -- Ida B. Wells
Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life. -- Jose Marti
We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me. -- Meister Eckhart
Life only avails, not the having lived. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Against the flying ball no valor avails. -- Martin Luther
Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty. -- Tacitus
Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another. -- Horace
What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein? -- Albert Pinkham Ryder
The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me. -- Leonardo da Vinci
What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse. -- Henry David Thoreau
Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep. -- Alexander Pope
If we lose touch with our heart's wisdom, then no method avails; if we love, then nothing else is necessary. -- Dan Millman
The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival, -- Ida B. Wells
The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness. -- W. Somerset Maugham
The Spirit never makes men the instruments of converting others until they feel that they cannot do it themselves; that their skill in argument, in persuasion, in management, avails nothing. -- Charles Hodge
How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be! -- Alexander Pope
A man avails himself of the truth so long as it is serviceable; but he seizes on what is false with a passionate eloquence as soon as he can make a momentary use of it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not become a monk: chastity depends on the existence of lust. -- Rumi

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