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- Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.
- Georges Rouault (1871 - 1958)
- Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?
- Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
- Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.
- Bible, New Testament, James, Chapter 1, Verse 12
- There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
- Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682), 1642
- Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
- Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599), 1590
- As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
- In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
- Coco Chanel (1883 - 1971)
- One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
- Alexander A. Bogomoletz
- The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
- Denis Watley
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