Melissa de la Cruz Quotes
You have punished me long enough, you have punished yourself long enough. Return to me. I beg.

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I was informed... that some... were dreaming and wished to return.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
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An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.
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Israel's days without Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip are gone and will not return.
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I don't plan to return. I have a lot of unresolved things to do.
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The more you do for others without expectation of return, the more you'll get back from the most unexpected sources.
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The army will hear nothing of politics from me and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the army.
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As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.
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It is hard to personate and act a part long; for where Truth is not the bottom, Nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep and betray herself one time or other.
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Do it because it's in your heart. Not because you want something in return. Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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Men were considered "free" only so that they might be considered guilty - could be judged and punished: consequently, every act had to be considered as willed, and the origin of every act had to be considered as lying within the consciousness (and thus the most fundamental psychological deception was made the principle of psychology itself).
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One is punished best for one's virtues.
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He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat.
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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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Love is no love which asks for a return.
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Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.
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A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
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My favorite pre-Ponzi schemer was known as '520 Percent Miller' because he promised 10 percent returns a week, or 520 percent a year. Of course he was just using new investors' money to pay old investors, and soon he was on the lam.
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I don't want Him to return and find me sitting in a theater.
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You can't just reprise the news. You have to have journalism that makes a point and you have to be in sync with your audience.
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He's been a different player since he has been back. We want to evaluate him, so he'll get the bulk of the playing time down the stretch.
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You have punished me long enough, you have punished yourself long enough. Return to me. I beg.