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Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.

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The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.

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Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

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If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

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And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.

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There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.

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He was part of my dream, of course - but then I was part of his dream too.

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Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well.

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Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate your feelings, to establish them. If you have in any way touched the central heart of mankind's feelings, you'll survive.

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My poetry, I think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.

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The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

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The sense of an entailed disadvantage -- the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite. But in the rarer sort, who presently see their own frustrated claim as one among a myriad, the inexorable sorrow takes the form of fellowship and makes the imagination tender.

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Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

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What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?

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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

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His honest, patronizing pride in the good-will and respect of everybody about him was a safeguard even against foolish romance, still more against a lower kind of folly.

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Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.

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There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

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Every sin is the result of collaboration.

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