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The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth.
Our desire must be like a slow and stately ship, sailing across endless oceans, never in search of safe anchorage. Then suddenly, unexpectedly, it will find mooring for a moment.
Never cut what you can untie.
The prayer that is faithless is fruitless.
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue.
Strong people are made by opposition, like kites that go up against the wind.
Souls are made of dawn-stuff and starshine.
Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.
Time is a flowing river. Happy those who allow themselves to be carried, unresisting, with the current. They float through easy days. They live, unquestioning, in the moment.
There are a hundred thousand useless words in the English language, but they come in handy in college football yells.
An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate"; an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation, but will always abundantly repay the labors of industry, and generally satisfy the most extensive desires, if no part of it be suffered to lie in waste by negligence, to be overrun with noxious plants, or laid out for show rather than for use.
When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.
When you were a tadpole and I was a fish in the Palaozoic time And side by side in the sluggish tide, we sprawled in the ooze and slime.
'Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.
What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.
I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges or scrub the floor.
Nature gave men two ends-one to sit on, and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
If you want your ship to come in, you must build a dock.
I have accepted fear as a part of life-specifically the fear of change. ... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....


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