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Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored. -- Herman Melville
It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested. -- James Russell Lowell
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I gave Joss Whedon and Judd Apatow their first writing jobs, as well as many other untried writers who went on to great success. -- Roseanne Barr
I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart. -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? -- George Haven Putnam
The mind as well as the body must be not only strong but well disciplined in order to act with promptness and vigor in new and untried situations. It is hard to turn men's minds from the old and deeply worn channels in which they have long been flowing. -- Benjamin Robbins Curtis
Trust in your own untried capacity. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Nothing is unnatural - just untried. -- Rita Mae Brown
A soul untried by sorrows is good for nothing. -- Theophan the Recluse
Today's 'best practices' lead to dead ends; the best paths are new and untried. -- Peter Thiel
What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned? -- Horace
Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying. -- Herodotus
The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried. -- Michel de Montaigne
What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried? -- Abraham Lincoln
Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass! -- Joseph Addison
It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried. -- Francis Bacon
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys. -- Eric Hoffer
We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities. -- Thomas Jefferson
Virtue, opening heaven to those who do not deserve to die, makes her course by paths untried. [Lat., Virtus, recludens immeritis mori Coelum, negata tentat iter via.] -- Horace
FAITH untried may be true faith, but it is sure to be little faith, and it is likely to remain dwarfish so long as it is without trials. -- Charles Spurgeon
In the principle of equality I very clearly discern two tendencies; one leading the mind of every man to untried thoughts, the other prohibiting him from thinking at all. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried ... nothing is so warming and companionable. -- Elizabeth Goudge
No man ever sailed over exactly the same route that another sailed over before him; every man who starts on the ocean of life arches his sails to an untried breeze. -- William Mathews
Holy and pure are the drops that fall, When the young bride goes from her father's hall; She goes unto love yet untried and new- She parts from love which hath still been true. -- Martha Finley

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