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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.

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The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, o...more

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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

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When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is cr...more

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The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.

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It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

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Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.

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The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

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The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion 20 years later.

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The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.

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For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

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Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

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The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

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She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep.

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The world is all gates all opportunities strings of tension waiting to be struck.