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Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.

—Publilius Syrus

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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

—Kathleen Norris

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Part of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore.

—Alan Moore

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I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.

—Joanna Field

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I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.

—Mary Stewart

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No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.

—Napoleon Hill

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It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.

—Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

—Isak Dineson

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

—Eric Schmidt

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Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.

—Stella Benson

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We are all born with wonderful gifts. We use these gifts to express ourselves, to amuse, to strengthen, and to communicate. We begin as children to explore and develop our talents, often unaware that we are unique, that not everyone can do what we're doing!

—Lynn Johnston

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When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.

—W. Somerset Maugham

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I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say.

—Calvin Coolidge

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The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

—H. G. Wells

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