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Life is to be lived, not controlled.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.
Samuel Johnson
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It's faith that really takes the courage, the belief in things unseen.
Jacquelyn Mitchard
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Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what the dead man should have been.
Louis Gustave Vapereau
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson
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Charlie Parker was the greatest individual musician that ever lived. Every instrument in the band tried to copy Charlie Parker, and in the history of jazz there had never been one man who influenced all the instruments.
Gary Giddins
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Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Fashion seldom interferes with nature without diminishing her grace and efficiency.
Henry Theodore Tuckerman
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Everything that's important - you can take with you.
Sheri L. Dew
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Dostoevsky was the first to reveal to us this teeming multiplicity of emotions, this complexity of our spiritual universe.
Stefan Zweig
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What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing?
Carl Sandburg
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Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it. But no one else is. The rest of us are just like you: we are interested in what we want.
Dale Carnegie
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Everybody makes excuses for themselves they wouldn't be prepared to make for other people.
Rebecca Goldstein
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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Are you afraid? Remember the fear nots of the Bible.
Elisabeth Elliot
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The shot Irishmen will now take their places beside Emmet and the Manchester Martyrs in Ireland, and beside the heroes of Poland and Sérbia and Belgium in Europe and nothing in heaven or earth can prevent it.
George Bernard Shaw
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God is the only sure foundation on which the mind can rest.
Samuel I. Prime
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Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
E. M. Forster
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Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
Samuel Johnson
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Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.
Benjamin Disraeli
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In life nothing goes on for ever, even if it looks exactly as if it would.
Ursula Bloom
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I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.
Samuel Johnson
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