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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!
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Only do not leave me in this abyss where I can not find you!
Source: Wuthering Heights (1847) Ch. XVI -
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.
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Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
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Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.
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Only the skilled can judge the skilfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.
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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted
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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.
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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.
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Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States' oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it will create thousands of good U.S. jobs.
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Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
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Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.
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Oppose not rage while rage is in its force, but give it way a while and let it waste.
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Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
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Oprah was not somebody who was telling us what to do, she wasn't really teaching us like so many people we see today. With Oprah, she was learning and we were learning with her. And I think that's really was the seed that was planted for all of us to just hang in there with her.
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