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Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.

—John Muir

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Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.

—Publilius Syrus

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Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.

—Danny Kaye

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Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it. The more you need the money, the more people will tell you what to do. The less control you will have. The more bullshit you will have to swallow. The less joy it will bring. Know this and plan accordingly.

—Hugh Macleod

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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.

—Earl Warren

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Just as I had to go through a transition period, I guess [my friends and family] did, too.

—Jennifer Hudson

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The only time I ever really suffered in body or mind, the only time that I ever fancied myself unwell, or had any ideas of danger, was the winter that I passed by myself. As long as we could be together, nothing ever ailed me, and I never met with the smallest inconvenience.

—Jane Austen

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Somebody once said that beauty is the passport to success, but it's not a passport. It's a visa and it expires.

—Michael J. Mosley and Nicholas Rossiter

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Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

—Socrates

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Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

—Bill Gates

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I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help, just a little bit.

—Susan Glaspell

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The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.

—Jewish Proverb

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Only two things you ignore: things that aren't important and things you wish weren't important, and wishing never works.

—David Shore

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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

—Jerry Chin

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