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/ page 226 of 1205 /When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be.
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Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
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I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls us to take a man's part in the real battle of life.
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Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
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Use what talent you possess - the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
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Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
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Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.
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Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.
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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.
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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.
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The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
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My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual that I am confused to be attracted by, in effect, my own annihilation.
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He moves in a wood of desire,...
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Direct me gods, whose changes are all holy, To where it flickers deep in grass, the moly:
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O wily painter, limiting the scene From a cacophony of dusty forms To the one convulsion,
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Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
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