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  • T. S. Eliot Time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Samuel Johnson To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • William Shakespeare To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing them, end them.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.
    Source: The Complete Works (2015)
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • William Shakespeare To be, or not to be; that is the question;
    Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
    The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
    Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
    And by opposing, end them.
    Source: Hamlet
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Anatole France To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • W. M. Thackeray To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • John Oxenham To every man there openeth A way, and ways, and a way. And the high soul climbs the high way, And the low soul gropes the low: And in between, on the misty flats, The rest drift to and fro. But to every man there openeth A high way and a low, And every man decideth. The way his soul shall go.
    John Oxenham
    English journalist, writer and poet (ps. of William Arthur Dunkerley) (1852 - 1941)
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  • Bodhidharma To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Beth Simone Noveck To me, technology was a means to an end to achieve the social justice goals, stronger democracy and more effective government that is the aim of what I do.
    Beth Simone Noveck
    American professor (1971 - )
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  • Henry James To treat a ''big'' subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • A. E. Housman To-day, the road all runners come,
    Shoulder-high, we bring you home,
    And set you at your threshold down,
    Townsman of a stiller town.
    Source: A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 19 (To an Athlete Dying Young), st. 2
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • H. P. Lovecraft Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.
    H. P. Lovecraft
    American writer (1890 - 1937)
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  • Vance Havner Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
    Vance Havner
    American writer
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  • Salman Rushdie Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.
    Source: The Ground Beneath Her Feet (2000) 38
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Igor Stravinsky Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
    Igor Stravinsky
    Russian composer (1882 - 1971)
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