"The tax code gives you an enormous advantage if you can find some things you can just sit with."
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"I feel as if one would only discover on one's death-bed what one ought to have lived for, and realise too late that one's life has been wasted. Any passionate and courageous life seems good in itself, yet one feels that some element of delusion is involved in giving so much passion to any humanly attainable object. And so irony creeps into the very springs of one's being."
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"I want to give you some love, I want to give you some good good lovin"
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"I love to see when ya move with the rhythm; I love to see when you're dancin' from within; It gives great joy to feel such sweet togetherness, everyone doin' and they're doing their best!"
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"Don't dream of being a good person, be a human being is valuable and gives value to life."
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"How different our standard is from Christ's. We ask how much a man gives. Christ asks how much he keeps."
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"The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties."
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"The gospel gives me hope, and hope is not a language the dark voices understand."
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"Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead are but as pictures: ‘tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil"
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"Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long / To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?"
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"Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground."
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"I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar."
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"God gives where he finds empty hands."
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"Don't ever give up on life. Life can be so beautiful, especially after you've spent a lot of time with it."
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"Things can give pleasure to the mind and senses, but only love can give pleasure to the heart. And ultimately, that is what we are looking for."
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"Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds."
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"He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually."
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"The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love."
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"We must suffer. Our five sense are dulled by inordinate pleasure. Penance makes them keen, gives them back their natural vitality, and more. Penance clears the eye of conscience and of reason. It helps think clearly, judge sanely. It strengthens the action of our will."
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"One has to work very carefully with what is in between the words. What is not said. Which is measure, which is rhythm and so on. So, it is what you don't write that frequently gives what you do write its power."
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