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A mighty pain to love it is, And 't is a pain that pain to miss; But of all pains, the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain.

Pain Love Mighty Miss
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I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

Have Held Many Things
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With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

About Day Day-To-Day Else
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Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

Peace More Important Than
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Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

Bit Fame Fulfill Temporary
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.

Room Prison World Native
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Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament.

After Brighten Course Depend
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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.

Betray Rich Night Small
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I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.

Clouds Display Fear Wish
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Nothing in Nature's sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high-- Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?

Creature Morals Drink Nature
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Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.

Over Death Poets Triumphs
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New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.

Field Crowd Foolish Mirrors
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If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.

Rival Bible Fears Hopes
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The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no use. . . .
Writer Culture Country Fine
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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty

People Sympathetic Capacity Stronger
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What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

Behold Eyes Less Life
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The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

True Play Life Real
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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Action Fear Overcome Thinking
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There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

Little Attitude Negative Big
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You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

True Choice Power Always
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We have a problem. 'Congratulations.' But it's a tough problem. 'Then double congratulations.'

Double Problem Then Tough
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But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?

Body Created Cures Greater
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However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.

Alone Anyone Awakening Back
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

Aim Alchemy Consider Gold
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.
Tomorrow Nothing Sleepless Wrestle
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We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

Freedom Hierarchy Caste System
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I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

Music Easiest Express Talent
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It was beautiful and it was hell at the same time but it showed me all the lessons I needed to learn to face the world.

Beautiful Time Lessons Needed
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Yes. A few times actually but my mindset has always been

Mindset Die Bend Fold
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Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.

Alone Attacks Because Body
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The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits, who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.

Angels Appear Directly Dreams
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What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?

Alleviate Could Cure Discovered
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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

Baker Benevolence Butcher Dinner
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Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.

AllThings First Gold Labour
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The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.

Visible Words Pages Blank
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The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

Rocks Cradle Light Sense
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Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

Passions Man Butterflies Known
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Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.

Any Cheerfulness Christian Course
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Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

About Administration Barbarism Being
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It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.

Active Banking Capital Country
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ

Be Sinner Sin Strongly
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I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

Shall Never Heretic May
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You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know,' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't be ashamed to admit it, but I'm not.

About Admit Ashamed Gay
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Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

Justice Temporary Thing That
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I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.

Example Father Had Just
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I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.

Life Myself Need Never
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After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.

After Back Change Come
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Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy.

Blah Crazy Each English
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It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.

Detail Hard Submit Exceed
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I have this complex that if I walk into a place wearing a colorful shirt someone will stop me and say, 'I'm sorry, but the Latin band comes through the other door.'

Band Colorful Complex Door
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