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Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span upon this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal.
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Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.
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James A. Froude (1818 - 1894)
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
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Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
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Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.
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Ellis Peters
If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.
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Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it.
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Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, July 25, 1839
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
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J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Importance of Being Earnest, Act 3
Just because we've been dealt a certain hand, it doesn't mean that we can't choose to rise above - to conquer the boundaries of a destiny that none of us wanted. To try to retain whatever essential humanity we can.
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Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005
When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Alan Paton (1903 - 1988)
I've decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.
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Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 06-04-08
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
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Mary Howitt
You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a woman’s name and claim to love her.
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Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, October 20, 2003
An idea is salvation by imagination.
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Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
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Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
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Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Jumpers (1972) act 1
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alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
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