"Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day."
-Thornton Wilder
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"But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.“
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"Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success."
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"Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday."
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"Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder."
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"Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value."
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"Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous."
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"But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm."
-Algernon H. Blackwood
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"Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone."
-John Buchanan Robinson
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"I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans."
-Michael Chertoff
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"You are forever alone."
-John Buchanan Robinson
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"I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing."
-Jonathan Coe
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"For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe."
-John Buchanan Robinson
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