"Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams?"
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"I speak the password primeval; I give the sign of democracy."
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"I have absolute faith that anything can come to one who trusts to the unlimited help of the Universal Intelligence that is within, so long as one works within the law, always gives more to others than they expect, and does it cheerfully and courteously."
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"ALL KNOWLEDGE is possible for anyone - and the Cosmos gives it to him who asks, but all information is impossible."
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"The Life Triumphant is that which places what a man gives to the world in creative expression far ahead of that which he takes from it of the creations of others."
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"The speed at which a business success is recognized, furthermore, is not that important as long as the company's intrinsic value is increasing at a satisfactory rate. In fact, delayed recognition can be an advantage: It may give us the chance to buy more of a good thing at a bargain price."
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"Sometimes you have to learn how to give the right answer to the wrong question."
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"The only thing you can do with your life is give it away. The best, happiest moments in your life are always when you're giving something away."
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"We can only give away to others what we have inside ourselves."
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"The first step toward discarding a scarcity mentality involves giving thanks for everything that you have."
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"After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be."
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"Every thing in human character goes to wreck, under the reign of procrastination, while prompt action gives to all things a corresponding and proportional life and energy."
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"It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought to be chosen. But wealth does this in only a portion of the actual cases. Elsewhere the desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption. There must be thousands of conjunctures in which a wealth-bound man must be a slave, whilst a man for whom poverty has no terrors becomes a freeman."
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"Junk takes everything and gives nothing but insurance against junk sickness."
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"Give to a gracious message An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell Themselves when they be felt."
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"Give me a staff of honor for mine age, But not a sceptre to control the world."
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"Give me a bowl of wine, In this I bury all unkindness."
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"When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again."
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"If you shall marry, You give away this hand, and this is mine; You give away heaven's vows, and those are mine; You give away myself, which is known mine; For I by vow am so embodied yours That she which marries you must marry me-- Either both or none."
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"When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents."
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