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Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
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The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
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I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
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The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows…
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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
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Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
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Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends…
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There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened…
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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
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The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly…
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The present Hindu society is organised only for spiritual men, and hopelessly crushes out everybody else. Why? Where shall they go who…
— Swami Vivekananda
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The ***** is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent.
— Che Guevara
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Lord, send Your life throughout the entire church. Visit Your church; restore sound doctrine and holy, earnest living. Take away from professing…
— Charles Spurgeon
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And rural nature is full of the same quickening spirit-it is, in fact, the exhaustless mine from which the poet and the…
— Thomas Cole
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Most people are too busy working on insignificant projects and pursuing life's frivolities to tap their creative abilities. It's a mistake to…
— Ernie J Zelinski
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So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden…
— Michelangelo
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This is reality, whether you like it or not--all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green…
— Willa Cather
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A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it.…
— Florence Nightingale
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