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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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The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

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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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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 only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

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It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

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

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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

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To laugh often and much,to win the respect of the intelligent peopleand the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest criticsand endur...more

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The reward of a thing well done is having done it.