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Versatility is one of the few human traits which are universally intolerable. You may be good at Greek and good at painting…
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But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.
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And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the…
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Music, the knife without a hilt,
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But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for…
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After I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist, I actually got them to give me a tour of the harem…
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Only common mortals like the Somervilles have good old rotten hates, dear,' said her mother. 'Sir Graham manages to love everybody and…
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Lack of genius never held anyone back. Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that.
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Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.
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[Robin Stewart] was your man. True for you, you had withdrawn the crutch from his sight, but still it should have been…
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I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with.
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The coast's a jungle of Moors, Turks, Jews, renegades from all over Europe, sitting in palaces built from the sale of Christian…
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The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of…
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Karma grows from our hearts. Karma terminates from our hearts.
— Gautama Buddha
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The end of all motion is its beginning; for it terminates at no other end save its own beginning from which begins…
— Johannes Scotus Eriugena
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Christ bounds and terminates the vast desires of the soul; He is the very Sabbath of the soul.
— John Flavel
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Cupidity...takes created things for ends in themselves, which they are not. The will that seeks rest in creatures for their own sake…
— Thomas Merton
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Education is a lifetime assignment & terminates when you do.
— Orrin Woodward
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Depose him,’ said Will Scott, astonished. ‘The Grand Master’s holy office terminates with his life.’ ‘And can nobody think of an answer…
— Dorothy Dunnett
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The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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