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The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.

—Dr. Smiley Blanton

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Who would have guessed it possible that waiting is sustainable. A place with its own harvest.

—Kay Ryan

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Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

—Laurence Sterne

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One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

—Oscar Wilde

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Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

—William Butler Yeats

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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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