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"What are gods for if not to sit in judgment over men? The Many-Faced God does not weigh men's souls, however. He gives his gift to the best of men as he gives it to the worst. Elsewise the good would live forever."
"Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable. It may, for a while, be irksome to do this, but that will wear off; and the practice will produce a rich harvest forever thereafter; whether in public or private walks of life."
"Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever."
"Things that can't go on forever, won't. Debts that can't be paid, won't be."
"For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever."
"No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen? Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer?"
"All that man has to say or do that can possibly concern mankind is in some shape or other to tell the story of his love-to sing, and, if he is fortunate and keeps alive, he will be forever in love."
"Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever?"
"Of what use the friendliest disposition even, if there are no hours given to Friendship, if it is forever postponed to unimportant duties and relations? Friendship first, Friendship last."
"Really to see the sun rise or go down every day, so to relate ourselves to a universal fact, would preserve us sane forever."
"Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever."
"For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it (life), whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to 'glorify God and enjoy him forever.'"
"The sport of business is the ultimate competition. It's 7 × 24 × 365 × forever."
"There is no sport as competitive as business. It's 24 by 7 by 365 by forever."
"I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way of detaching from materialism."
"It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head."
"I'll always try to follow my heart into things I love, and modelling is not something I'm dreaming of pursuing forever."
"I don't personally follow trends; I don't even like the idea of trends. I think it's kind of absurd that you have to change every six months, so I always try and buy things that hopefully I'll like forever, and resonate with me."
"I'm only going to be here for a time, then leave you." His gaze met mine. "And I will cry when I go, because I could love you forever."
"Elves apparently had a short childhood. Not like witches, who seemed to take forever to grow up, according to Jenks."
