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When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort.

—Jane Austen

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You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

—Gautama Buddha

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Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.

—Lucy Maud Montgomery

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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

—John Ruskin

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Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

—Edvard Munch

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An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

—J. D. Salinger

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Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

—Katharine Hepburn

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I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.

—Arthur Hays Sulzberger

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You have to learn that if you start making sure you feel good, everything will be okay.

—Ruben Studdard

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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

—Charles Kettering

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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

—Walt Whitman

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Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

—Pooh's Little Instruction Book

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If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

—Italian proverb

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We have to have the money to do the work we want to do, as well as to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table. Fat commissions are good, but not always easy to come by, and each new painting takes its time. So we need to find every way possible to earn extra income from our work.

—Elizabeth Aston

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