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"Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire."

Epictetus

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Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.


--Aeschylus

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"Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue."

Virginia Woolf

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In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.


--George Bancroft

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"For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours."

Pam Brown

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Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine.


--Ray Charles

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"They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity."

Emily Dickinson

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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.


--Edward Abbey

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"It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust."

Mary Wollstonecraft

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Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.


--Berthold Auerbach