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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
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A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
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By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.
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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
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Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart's drama and the negative meaning of history.
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This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.
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Yea, though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the meanest son of a bitch in the valley.
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Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.
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All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.
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Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
Contemplation and Action, 1902-14 -
Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.
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Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.
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Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
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Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.
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Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.
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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
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I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
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In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.
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