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There are so many little dying that it doesn't matter which of them is death.

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The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away - leaving people with nothing more to stand on than what they have so bloody well stood for up to now.

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The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.

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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

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Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.

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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

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Ah, how skillful grows the hand that obeyeth love's command! It is the heart and not the brain that to the highest doth attain, and he who followeth love's behest far excelleth all the rest.

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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; dust thou art, to dust returnest, was not spoken of the soul.

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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

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Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.

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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

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All things come round to him who will but wait.

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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.

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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.

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Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

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