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We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
Kenji Miyazawa
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To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.
Agatha Christie
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Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne.
Johannes V. Jensen
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I ask permission to be like everybody else,like the rest of the world and what's more, like anybody else:I beg you, with all my heart,if we are talking about me, since we are talking about me,please resist blasting the trumpet during my visitand resign yourselves to my quiet absence.
Pablo Neruda
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Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.
William Ralph Inge
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Let people catch something from your heart that will cause no discomfort, but help them to sing.
Rumi
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One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.
G. K. Chesterton
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In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight.
Homer
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There are times when Science does not satisfy.
Rudyard Kipling
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Please understand the reason why Chinese vegetables taste so good. It is simple. The Chinese do not cook them, they just threaten them!
Jeff Smith (chef)
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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
Stendhal
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A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.
Jane Austen
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Many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are.
J. K. Rowling
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Friendship is the unspeakable joy and blessing that result to two or more individuals who from constitution sympathize. Such natures are liable to no mistakes, but will know each other through thick and thin. Between two by nature alike and fitted to sympathize, there is no veil, and there can be no obstacle. Who are the estranged? Two friends explaining.
Henry David Thoreau
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You can pretend to be serious but you can't pretend to be witty.
Sacha Guitry
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Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves.
Owen Feltham
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We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
Louis Aragon
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When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.
Camilo José Cela
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I tasted - careless - then -
I did not know the Wine
Came once a World - Did you?
Oh, had you told me so -
This Thirst would blister - easier - now
Emily Dickinson
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Those whom we called brutes had their revenge when Darwin showed us that they were our cousins.
George Bernard Shaw
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Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way
Isaac Rosenberg
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For we must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.
John Winthrop
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Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Jacopo Sannazaro
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863.
William Faulkner
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Time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible, then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres.
Franz Kafka
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