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  • Eleanor Roosevelt One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Oscar Wilde One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bo Bennett One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.
    Source: Year to Success
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Ad Reinhardt Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
    Ad Reinhardt
    American abstract painter (1913 - 1967)
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  • Alexandre Dumas père Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Edna Ferber Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!
    Edna Ferber
    American writer (1885 - 1968)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Novalis Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
    Novalis
    German poet and writer (ps. van Georg van Hardenberg) (1772 - 1801)
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  • Emily Brontë Only do not leave me in this abyss where I can not find you!
    Source: Wuthering Heights (1847) Ch. XVI
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • John Butler Yeats Only for his dreams is a man responsible, his actions are what he must do.
    John Butler Yeats
    Irish painter (1839 - 1922)
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  • Joseph Conrad Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • John Dryden Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Ronald Knox Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.
    Ronald Knox
    English Catholic priest, theologian and author (1888 - 1957)
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  • Hugh Blair Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.
    Hugh Blair
    Scottish minister of religion, author and rhetorician (1718 - 1800)
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  • Anatole France Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Groucho Marx Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men - the other 999 follow women.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Frederick W. Robertson Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.
    Frederick W. Robertson
    English divine (1816 - 1853)
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  • Walter Lippmann Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Joan Didion Only the dying man can tell how much time he has left.
    Source: The Year of Magical Thinking (2007) 24
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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