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/ page 237 of 1205 /Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.
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Attempt the end and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out.
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If a little labor, little are our gains. Man's fortunes are according to his pains.
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Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying.
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Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Times is still a-flying And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying.
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Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment.
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See where she comes, and smell how all the street, Breathes vineyards and pomegranates: oh, how sweet!...
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And with our broth, and bread, and bits, sir friend, You've fared well : pray make an end ; Two days you've larded here ; a third, ye know, Makes guests and fish smell strong ; pray go
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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms ...
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Love of God is not always the same as love of good.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
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...each of us has to find out for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden - forbidden for him. It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. And vice versa. Actually it's only a question of convenience. Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them things are forbidden to them that every honorable man will do any day in the year and other things are allowed to them that are generally despised. Each person must stand on his own feet.
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Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
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I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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