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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If a man gives way to all his desires, or panders to them, there will be no inner struggle in him, no 'friction,' no fire. But if, for the sake of attaining a definite aim, he struggles with desires that hinder him, he will then create a fire which will gradually transform his inner world into a single whole.
Pyotr Ouspensky
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We've had trickle down economics in the country for ten years now, and most of us aren't even damp yet.
Molly Ivins
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In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
Sidney Lanier
