Samuel Smiles Quotes
Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.
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This man who was my father's age hit me hard on my head when I was 17. I started bleeding. I took out my sandal and hit his head hard, and he started to bleed, too.
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I go out, but not too much. When I'm on tour, I just write a lot of music and sleep.
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After things started to happen here, my choice of material was extremely limited. It was a weird situation.
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At some point in our life, each of us is very likely to be a care getter or a care giver or both.
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One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously.
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It wasn't that I hated being asked a bunch of questions. I had nothing against questions. I just didn't like listening to them, because some questions take forever to make sense. Sometimes waiting for a question to finish is like watching someone draw an elephant starting with the tail first. As soon as you see the tail your mind wanders all over the place and you think of a million other animals that also have tails until you don't care about the elephant because it's only one thing when you've been thinking about a million others.
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Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.
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We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle goal in life is to be rich, thin, young, famous, safe, and entertained.
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Your love keeps me afloat but will remain the anchor in my soul... I don't really have words to describe how romantic I find that. Your love is what keeps me going, but it's also the anchor that keeps me close to you. I love it!
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I wanna meet the person who wrote the Burlington Coat Factory thing, but that's cool. I would love to understand it more, but everything is good.
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It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity.
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If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives.
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All children are love children, he said, but only the best ones are ever called that.
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All things are in fate, yet all things are not decreed by fate.
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What else goes wrong for a woman-except her marriage?
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Sometimes there's something that you need a few takes to get it and if it takes 15 takes, it takes 15 takes. It really depends.
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(A ruler) cannot and should not keep his word when to do so would go against his interests or when the reason he pledged it no longer holds.
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A throne is God's purpose for you; a cross is God's path for you; faith is God's plan for you.
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No one has to thank me for accepting the burden, because it is so big sacrifice for me to please or I would not do for kindness to anyone. I do this to for my country, as a duty of conscience, coldly, calmly completed.
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Those glories come too late That on our ashes wait.
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Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.
