Sidney Lanier (Sidney Clopton Lanier) Quotes
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
Sidney Lanier
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Actually, the fun part was not knowing what the heck I was going to be doing.
Utada Hikaru
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Citizenship and ethnicity can become, in certain contexts, restrictive, and perhaps that's one reason I was interested in people who feel compelled to mask their origins and thereby circumvent the restrictions.
Rachel Kushner
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I grew up in a town called Subang Jaya, and made a lot of friends from around Kuala Lumpur.
Yuna
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I have absolutely no concept of work, except for university. But I like to talk to people a lot about their jobs.
Rachel Cusk
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History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
Benjamin Cardozo
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You need to recognize and sweep aside certain weaknesses which stand between you and your goals. Your persistence develops into a respected, proved, progressive power.
Napoleon Hill
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One of the most beautiful sights in dance is American Ballet Theatre in full flight.
Clive Barnes
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It takes 65 muscles to frown and 13 to make a smile. Why work overtime?
B. J. Palmer
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Religion is using everything for God.
Henry Ward Beecher
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And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.
Hippocrates
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Do not say the land ahead does not exist, simply because you cannot see it.
R. H. Barlow
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Man is potentially a son, and woman is potentially a mother; woman depends on the dependence of man. The spinster, if pathetic at all, is pathetic because she has no one to look after, not because there is no one to look after her. Bear in mind that the conventional spinster keeps a canaary as a substitute for a husband.
Stella Benson
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The equipment and weaponry will continually change and improve, and the size of the military will expand as needed, decreasing during times of peace. But the unyielding will of the soldier and the dedication of professional military leaders will not change. Our soldiers can do a great deal more under pressure than people think. You'd have to see them perform in combat to believe it.
George W. Dunaway
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Deep thinking in the ranks leads only to drinking.
William Overgard
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What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.
George Eliot
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Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
Sidney Lanier
