The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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Anand Thakur
The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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Heroes in history seem to us poetic because they are there. But if we should tell the simple truth of some of our neighbors, it would sound like poetry.
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Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they’ve reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you’re just horny. It doesn’t mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be; The waves that plunged along the shore Said only: “Dreamer, dream no more!”
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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While we read history we make history.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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