As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

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Sometimes words were like glass that broke in her mouth.

Author: Emma Donoghue
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Let your days become a fragrant song where heaven and earth continually collide

Author: John Crowder
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To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It has happened to all of us; we are its victims, are we hav

Author: William Glasser
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The communities and countries best at using energy to optimize a microclimate for human life are als

Author: Chris Hadfield
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I've spent enough time in the business community to know there are certain regulators who are very c

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How could any boy know that freedom is lost the moment you become a man. Things start to count. To p

Author: Pierce Brown
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The attempt of trying to solve a problem without analyzing responsibilities is like trying to unders

Author: Robin Sacredfire
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How would you like to star in your very own commercial?""I'd rather swim in battery acid.

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One of man's finest qualities is described by the simple word "guts"-the ability to take it. If you

Author: Colonel John S. Roosman
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Stories, A Portal to Anywhere but Here.

Author: Joshua Caleb
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The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas w

Author: Nikola Tesla
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How stand I, then,That have a father killed, a mother stained,Excitements of my reason and my blood,

Author: William Shakespeare
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At the age of 46, forgetfulness & confusion had become a daily aspect of life.

Author: Steven Magee
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I talk to student-athletes. I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but studen

Author: Earl Campbell
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We cannot be satisfied with our goodness after beholding the holiness of God.

Author: Billy Graham
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Whether you are married or have lived with someone for a time, look upon that person and know that,

Author: Larry Ackerman
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You can give without loving but you cannot love without giving.

Author: Amy Carmichael
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To make the world. To make it again and again. To make it in the very maelstrom of its undoing.

Author: Cormac McCarthy
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You wished for time,” Aldrik explained. “I heard each utterance when you beseeched time to stop, for

Author: Elise Kova
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God never cooperates with evil. He simply offers us the opportunity to transform the painful experie

Author: Kyriacos C. Markides
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I wouldn’t have gone if he’d made me. But it was different, deciding myself. It made staying too eas

Author: Jack Iams
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As you see the patterns and meaning emerge in your own personal experience of the world dream, you b

Author: Carolyn Elliott
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In the pursuit of dreams, we all have different beginnings. Your past is not negotiable. You must le

Author: Dragos Bratasanu
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Sitting on the hot seat of change requires much courage, patience, and persistence.

Author: David W. Earle
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Topics... are what people talk about when they don't know each other well. Topics... are what men ta

Author: Patricia Gaffney
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When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

Author: Helen Rowland
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I’m an idiot for thinking that one performance would change anything.Maybe I should stop writing son

Author: Elizabeth Eulberg
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Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down". My eyes are seeing through what the or

Author: Bayode Ojo
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All writers are insecure, the male ones especially. It's well known. Why else would they spend so mu

Author: Philip Sington
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They say compassion is the only voice; a gift which can help mend the broken, lift the fallen and so

Author: Aisha Mirza
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Evil does not exist; once you have crossed the threshold, all is good. Once in another world, you mu

Author: Franz Kafka
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If we can cease envisaging ourselves as metaphorical foetuses, and substitute the image of a newborn

Author: Salman Rushdie
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Joy is all around me, and I celebrate it all.

Author: Amy Leigh Mercree
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The world must begin sharing again. We need more kindness. -Takua Kawirembeyju, Guarani Shaman of Pa

Author: Nancy Connor
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I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because the

Author: Margaret Atwood
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Light-minded society mercilessly persecutes in reality what it allows in theory

Author: Alexander Pushkin
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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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I feel free when I see no one and nobody knows my name

Author: Lana Del Rey
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I welcome challenges. I triumph on them, it helps me grow. Without the challenges that I have faced,

Author: Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
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Anticipation is foreplay, and...pain is the purest form of pleasure

Author: James Crow
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When you took a man's job away from him, his ability to feed and clothe his family, that man was goi

Author: Darrin Grimwood
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If you allow your passion and vitality to remain hidden or unexpressed, you won't live into the full

Author: Catherine Robinson-Walker
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You cannot reach the stars feet on the ground.

Author: Matshona Dhliwayo
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We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adv

Author: Jawaharlal Nehru
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They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive.

Author: Ian Fleming
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Our doubts are traitors And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.

Author: William Shakespeare
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It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man

Author: Osamu Dazai
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Allow yourself to be possessed by God by receiving Jesus, and you will never be possessed by anythin

Author: Stormie Omartian
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If You Want to Learn Anything About Being Human , Make a Friendship With New Born Child .

Author: Sushil Singh
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They sped by a pack of sea lions lounging on the docks, and she swore she saw an old homeless guy si

Author: Rick Riordan
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Once you've done it with him, he won't abandon you. If he really loves you, if he's a man with a hea

Author: Ha Jin
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Soothsayers are like that. They see many futures but never their own.

Author: Jasper Fforde
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You think that's the solution to everything, don't you, Bane? Drinking and dancing and making love..

Author: Cassandra Clare
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Everyone has a head but not everyone get ahead

Author: Saji Ijiyemi
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Love requires fellowship and relationship with people

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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The franchise and the virus work on the same principle, what thrives in one place will thrive in ano

Author: Neal Stephenson
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They spell-caught the sounds of cat paws, the breath of fish, the spittle of birds, the hairs of a w

Author: Ingri d'Aulaire
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As history has repeatedly suggested, nothing is more effective for demolishing traditional legal pro

Author: Sarah Bakewell
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Most politicians lie for the same reason a monkey swings by his tail, which is to say because he can

Author: Stephen King
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I went through the usual stages: imp, rascal, scalawag, whippersnapper. And, of course, after that i

Author: George Carlin
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In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the

Author: Toni Morrison
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Life is all about progress and movements, keep it moving.

Author: Hopal Green
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Home is in here [tapping temple]. Where you live is just a geographical preference.

Author: Lemmy Kilmister
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Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone.

Author: Goran Persson
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Ultimately the decisions we make decide where and if we will wake up some morning.

Author: Chuck Bridges
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

Author: Lucretius
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Be strong, little one. There's a reason you are here. Like anyone with a dream, you have a purpose,

Author: Charles Lee
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-What is nothing? I impetuously asked.-It is what you can see of your eyes without a mirror, was the

Author: Patti Smith
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Lord you know how busy I must be this day. If I forget you do not you forget me.

Author: Jacob Astley
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The worst ever offence you can commit against your time is to think that “time spent making plans is

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
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A fearless heart is free of desire, a kind heart finds paradise everywhere.

Author: Alan Yuen
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I can only hope the federal aid made available today will be sufficient in our recovery efforts, and

Author: Mike Rogers
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The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bull pen.

Author: Bob Lemon
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Perfection is dangerous. It leaves no room for range.

Author: Natasha Tsakos
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He was a chicken in the outside world that turned into a lion on entering the house.

Author: Pawan Mishra
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But you must stop playing among his ghosts -- it's stupid and dangerous and completely pointless. He

Author: Patricia A. McKillip
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Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.

Author: Joey Adams
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Perhaps you think I'm losing the thread of my thought? Not a bit of it! I'm still telling you the st

Author: Leo Tolstoy
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This is, because that is. This is not, because that is not,” the Buddha taught. All the conditions h

Author: Dang Nghiem
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¿Por qué? ¿Acaso crees que los demonios no podemos sentir afecto? Somos seres racionales y experimen

Author: Laura Gallego García
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Am I going with time slowly or is time going with me?

Author: Debasish Mridha
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..."vers libre," (free verse) or nine-tenths of it, is not a new metre any more than sleeping in a d

Author: G.K. Chesterton
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Some fail to bear in mind that everyone is sentenced to death. Death is a treacherous virus that str

Author: Erik Pevernagie
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Oh, sweetheart, I am the worst male your precious gods could have chosen for you." The expression on

Author: Madison Thorne Grey
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God created many races wilier than men.But it doesn't mean angels higher than us.

Author: Toba Beta
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The universe created me to see its own beauty through my eyes.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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If ever we are to study the Scriptures, if ever we are to spend time in prayer, if ever we are to wi

Author: Billy Graham
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When I visit someplace new my favorite thing to do is eat...and walk, preferable to a place where I

Author: Jessica Fechtor
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There's Light At The End of Every Tunnel. So Keep Moving If You Get A Sign of HOPE. You Never Know,

Author: Muhammad Imran Hasan
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Rule number 2 - don't listen to me!" Arriane laughed, "I'm certifiably insane!

Author: Lauren Kate
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All you need is a dream to drive you nuts.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so li

Author: Bruce Sterling
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Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will

Author: Chuck Palahniuk
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Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art

Author: Unknown
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Miles away, down through an opening in the hills, he could catch glimpses of a road where motor-cars

Author: Saki
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NASA's been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achi

Author: Buzz Aldrin
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People have a tendency to shrink the boundaries of complex problems to fit into their back pocket an

Author: Anthony P. Mauro
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My history teacher could make us feel like he was imparting rare gossip to us when he was talking ab

Author: Mallory Ortberg
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My name is Jimmy,but my friends just call methe hideous penguin boy.

Author: Tim Burton