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When two people part, it is the one who is not in love who makes the tender speeches.

Two people [art In love Makes
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Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.

Feel otherwise Enjoying life More dangerous Apprehending
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Beauty is a promise of happiness.
Beauty Promise Happiness
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There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.

Devilishly direct Direct relationship Nervous Prospect
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The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.

Materialistic view Happiness Age starkly Revealed
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To appreciate life's small moments, it helps to have a sense the whole can never be made perfect.

Appreciate life Small moments Helps Made perfect
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Not everything which happens to us occurs with reference to something about us.

Not everything Happens With reference About us
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An urgent wish is no guarantor of a sound solution.

An urgent Wish Guarantor Sound solution
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The feeling one has no time to get anything done provides the pressure that guarantees one does get some things done.

The feeling No time Anything done Provides
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

Book Device Ignite Imagination
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Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it

Books Pasing time Other worlds Wanting time
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules

We started off Set up Anarchist community People
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.

Sometime Next time Second chance Now
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing in capabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.

History Commentary Continuing In capabilities
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.

Hardest things Boys Learn Teacher
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Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.

Life Sardines Looking for Key
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.

One recipe Happiness Entitlement Added
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Can there be any greater pleasure than to come across an author one enjoys and then to find they have written not just one book or two, but at least a dozen?

Greater pleasure Come across An author One enjoy
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History nowadays is not a matter of conviction. It’s a performance. It’s entertainment. And if it isn’t, make it so.

History Nowadays Matter Conviction
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Marriage is supposed to be a partnership. Good-looking people marry good-looking people and the others take what's left.

Marriage Partnership Good looking People
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Never at my best when at my best behavior.

Never My best When Behavior
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The more institutions and freedoms and benefits one can take for granted – of which in my view free state-supported galleries and museums come high on the list – the more civilised a society is.

More institutions Freedom Benefit Granted
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The prime minister did not wholly believe in the past or in any lessons that might be drawn from it

Prime minister Wholly believe Past Lesson
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You don't put your life into books. You find it there.

Don't put Your life Into books
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I wish everyone renewed hope, love, good health, wellness and happiness.

Wish Renewed hope Love Good health
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You're an epitome of leadership and character. May God bless you with more years of wisdom and strength for nation building.

An epitome Leadership Character May God
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We remember our fallen heroes who gave their lives for the service of our nation. With a sense of indebtedness for their sacrifice, we show gratitude. Our thoughts and prayers are with their families. May their labor never be in vain.

We remember Fallen heroes Who gave Lives
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Because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie

Life slips The rest My journey A star
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.

The truth Our civilization Christian Tragic
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.

Great fear My heart One day Loving
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it

Not permissible Destroying Family life
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.

Beloved country Unborn child Inheritor Our fear
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering.For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.

Never thought Christian Free Suffering
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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival. When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house. But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.

Sorrow Better Than fear Journey
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.

Work For men The land The people
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.

Sorrow Fear Impoverishes always May enrich
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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

Life Taught me Expect nothing Success
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator. Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.

The ground Holy Came from The Creator
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And money is not something to go mad about.Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children
Money Mad For food Clothes
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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.

Weak Sinful man God His hands
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.

Forgive us Have trespasses
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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.

Our emancipation The fear Bondage Secret
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How often we sleep and awaken and sleep once to wake no more

How often We sleep Awaken Wake
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you are every thing i want to write in a poem, like this when my heart will not hush a storm bounds in bloodlines with blue ink and in oxygen carrying natal scents of you

You are Every thing My heart Storm bounds
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my pen cannot contain you,it spills all over heart's diary,confessions of my blue spirit,how you possess every page,with your beauty of sonnets, mere paper becomes holy grail.

My pen Contain you Heart's diary Confessions
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You are here. Oh, you do not run away. You will answer me to the last cry. Cling to me as though you were frightened. Even so, at one time a strange shadow ran through your eyes.

Are here Run away Will answer Last cry
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Whatever you're going through, be fine. Be resilient. Be hopeful. Dawn proves more than its sunlight and showers of dew.

Whatever Going through Be fine Be resilient
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forgive these unlearned hands which bruise your tender ribs in coarse hug and stoke thus out of your hearth all the words contained as fire in the belly of coals

Forgive Unlearned hands Bruise Tend ribs
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Love, consciousness, and creativity are the highest refinements of the cosmic evolutionary force.

Love Consciousness Creativity Highest refinements
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The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become.

The purpose Transcendent art Express something
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