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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

Advance Behind Fools Go
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
Life Endure Personal
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Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

Conqueror Ever Exterior Life
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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
Any Die Different Luckier
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Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

Both Composition Dialect English
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

AdmirAgainst Aside Disputed Great
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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

AlsoBattles Day Fall Gain
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
Funeral His Own Sympathy
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I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.

Bones Fat Find Sticks
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Simplicity is the glory of expression.
Simple
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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

Soul Cool Universe
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Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

Another Done Last Returns
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In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.

Confusion Each Happy Other
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

Absorb Country He Him
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Anything Education Had Men
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

Climbs Fruit Gulf He
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Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
Autumn Blossoms
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To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

Honour Nature
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

Afterwards Centuries
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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Miles Shadow
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What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.

Say Eyes
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
Look Back
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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.

Raise Invention Eyes
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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

Side Bolt
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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

Race Perish Power
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

Life Burden Finding That
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Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

Faces Charm Soon
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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Architect He Himself History
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Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Because Blame Common Determines
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

Any Clear Fully Grasp
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I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.

Nervous Stage Help But
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Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

Feels Force Full He
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I'm like Johnny Cash. I only wear black.
Black Like Johnny Cash
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I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.

Looking Nice But Comfort
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

After Cheap Pay Price
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I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.
Music Eyes Ears Make
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I am quite loud and bolshie. I'm a big personality. I walk into a room, big and tall and loud.

Quite Loud Bolshie Big
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I no longer buy papers or tabloids or magazines or read blogs. I used to. But it was just filling up my day with hatred.

Longer Buy Papers Tabloids
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It's warts and all in my songs, and I think that's why people can relate to them.

Warts All Songs Think
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I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs.

Doubt Singing Forever Because
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I wouldn't be able to write a song like 'Someone Like You' and get someone else to sing it because it's so personal. It's like giving away your heart.

Able Wouldn't Write Song
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In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about.

Songs Really Direct Interviews
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There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

Contradict One Thing Only Only One Thing
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

After Chain Life Link
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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

Characters Endured Hell Hereafter
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The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

Argument Best Deserves Existence
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I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.

Just Want Music People
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I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about. I just stand there and sing. And I don't do stunts or anything. if I wanted to do all that, I don't think I'd get away with it.

People Confusing That About
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I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that.

Never Wanted Like Models
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It is important to make your audience believe what they see. People will always have different opinions on things.

Important Audience Always Opinion
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