"It wasn't that he was specially ungenerous but that he put things off to give his generosity a longer and more significant route."
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"Yes,” said Mamma, “this is the worst of life, that love does not give us common sense but is a sure way of losing it. We love people, and we say that we are going to do more for them than friendship, but it makes such fools of us that we do far less, indeed sometimes what we do could be mistaken for the work of hatred."
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"It is not the policy of the government in America to give aid to works of any kind. They let things take their natural course without help or impediment, which is generally the best policy."
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"Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail."
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"France, freed from that monster, Bonaparte, must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose ties of family and fortune give a preference to some other one, and the first choice of all not under those ties."
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"It's amazing how someone's IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them."
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"Logic only gives man what he needs... Magic gives him what he wants."
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"Other than our love our labor is one of the most sacred gifts we can give. When your labor is your love, life is sacred. Love what you do or change."
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"You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want using whatever life gives you along the way."
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"Don't even wait until you've lost a pound. The minute you can push the plate away with food still on it, give yourself a pat on the back."
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"It's not just the light weights that give a long toned look with the Tracy Anderson Method, it's using the body in different rotations while contracting and releasing the muscle, causing it to stretch and lengthen."
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"We've gotta give Richard Williams a lot of credit - to give us two number one champions is a phenomenal feat."
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"Gimme hate, Lord,” he whimpered. “I’ll take hate any day. But don’t give me love. I can’t take no more love, Lord. I can’t carry it...It’s too heavy. Jesus, you know, you know all about it. Ain’t it heavy? Jesus? Ain’t love heavy?"
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"Jesus may ask of you far more than you planned to give, but He can give to you infinitely more than you dared ask or think."
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"When my husband gives me this ultimatum, "You either stop singing, or you move out," then it became very clear that what I needed to do - not just because I wanted to sing, but because I didn't want to live with anybody who issued ultimatums to me like that - would be to move out."
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"In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases."
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"When you do not know what to do, relax and tell yourself that other portions of yourself do know; they will take over. Give yourself some rest. Remind yourself that in many ways you are a very successful person as you are. Success does not necessarily involve great intellect or great position or great wealth; it has to do with inner integrity. Remember that."
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"Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends in their authors. That rare writer who comes alive on a page does it by giving of himself, by writing of meanings, and not just of fact or of things that have happened to him. The writers of flight who have done this are usually found together in a special section on private bookshelves."
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"The most successful givers aren’t doing it because they’re being told to. They do it because doing it is fun. It gives them joy."
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"Later in my life, I'm going to look back and smile and be very fulfilled. I know that if I don't give it my all right now I'll regret it later. That's very important to me, because I've worked all my life to have this."
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