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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God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You ask of her that she should not have sex with anyone except you -- yet you are not willing to observe the same restraint in return.
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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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When the opportunities come, we may not want to buy another nickel asset, but if something comes cheap enough, we're all about return on equity.
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The basis of human rights is happy life. Everyone wants to lead a happy life for which we need to have a holistic approach.
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Doing what we do [filming], you have to be your own critic and judge and adjudicate as to what you do and how it turned out.
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I try to solve my problems by writing music and recording albums, but you know what's really funny about that? Once the album becomes a success, it doesn't solve your problems. It just gets harder to write the next album.
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You have punished me long enough, you have punished yourself long enough. Return to me. I beg.