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- Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925
- Watch your thoughts, they become words.
Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become your character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny. - Unknown
- The thought manifests as the word;
The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character; So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings⦠As the shadow follows the body, As we think, so we become. - Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC), Dhammapada
- I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.
- Rosie O'Donnell, Today Show interview, 04-08-08
- A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness.
- Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
- The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health.
- Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
- The world ridicules a passion which it seldom feels; its scenes, and its interests, distract the mind, deprave the taste, corrupt the heart, and love cannot exist in a heart that has lost the meek dignity of innocence.
- Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
- Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in real love.
- Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
- Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.
- Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
- There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.
- Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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