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Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.

—W. Somerset Maugham

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Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.

—Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.

—Melody Beattie

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Be contented when you have got all you want.

—Holbrook Jackson

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Sometimes you feel other people's pain worse than your own. We're armored against our own troubles. We can't afford to give in to despair. Then you see someone else struggling, and it breaks your... heart.

—Sean Stewart

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Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results.

—Jerry Flint

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A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

—Jeff Bezos

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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

—Og Mandino

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Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

—Harold Bloom

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

—W. Somerset Maugham

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We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

—José Ortega y Gasset

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Always be a little kinder than necessary.

—J. M. Barrie

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One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.

—Hannah More

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

—Helen Hayes

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Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

—Francis Bacon

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