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Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
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Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.
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Here's the rule for bargains: ''Do other men, for they would do you.'' That's the true business precept.
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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!
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Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.
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His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.
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His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.
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How could I have been anything else but what I am, having been named Madonna. I would either have ended up a nun or this.
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How do I explain Neil Young? Great question! I explain Neil Young as, I would kill to see his acoustic shows.
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How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?
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How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.
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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.
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How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
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How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?
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How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!
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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.
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How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
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How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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