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  • "My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter."
    By: Abraham Lincoln
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  • "I suppose that everyone of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next."
    By: A.A. Milne
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  • "Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man."
    By: Albert Camus
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  • "The absurd is clear reason recognizing its limits."
    By: Albert Camus
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  • "Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world."
    By: Albert Camus
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  • "To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge."
    By: Albert Camus
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  • "The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual - namely to You."
    By: Walt Whitman
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  • "Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy."
    By: William Shakespeare
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  • "My nature is subdu'd To what it works in, like the dyer's hand."
    By: William Shakespeare
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  • "Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery."
    By: William Shakespeare
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  • "Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared - this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth."
    By: Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • "I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could."
    By: Orson Welles
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  • "I dwell in Possibility A fairer house than Prose More numerous of Windows Superior - for Doors."
    By: Emily Dickinson
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  • "My mother said to me,If you become a soldier, you'll be a general, if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope. Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."
    By: Pablo Picasso
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  • "To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man."
    By: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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  • "Men are idolaters and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make it out of wood, you must make it out of words."
    By: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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  • "The man who consecrates his hours By vig'rous effort and an honest aim, At once he draws the sting of life and death; He walks with nature and her paths are peace."
    By: Edward Young, Night Thoughts (night II, l. 187)
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  • "The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength and skill."
    By: William Wordsworth, She Was a Phantom of Delight
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  • "Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray."
    By: William Wordsworth, Character of a Happy Warrior (l. 72)
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    By: William Wordsworth, Character of a Happy Warrior (l. 48)
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  • "One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave."
    By: William Wordsworth, A Poet's Epitaph (st. 5)
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  • "These two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together,--manly dependence and manly independence, manly reliance and manly self-reliance."
    By: William Wordsworth
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    By: Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde)
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  • "Formed on the good old plan, A true and brave and downright honest man! He blew no trumpet in the market-place, Nor in the church with hypocritic face Supplied with cant the lack of Christian grace; Loathing pretence, he did with cheerful will What others talked of while their hands were still."
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