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"Everything counts for gain when we are cosmically awake. Nothing counts, unless we are awake. No enjoyments last, no successes satisfy, no gains have meaning unless accomplished in a state of wakefulness."
"If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth."
"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."
"The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more vulgar companions."
"This is one of those instances in which the individual genius is found to consent, as indeed it always does, at last, with the universal."
"The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last."
"The only prosperity the people can afford to be satisfied with is the kind that lasts"
"[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own."
"Though old the thought and oft exprest, Tis his at last who says it best."
"I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it."
"Creating problems is easy. We do it all the time. Finding solutions, ones that last and produce good results, requires guts and care."
"What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind."
"The last Christian died on a cross."
"When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that "being" is merely a continual "has been," a thing that lives by denying and destroying and contradicting itself."
"Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste."
"The brave person thinks of himself last of all."
"He knew I'd seen everything in that alley, that I'd stood there and done nothing. He knew that I'd betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time."
"I was born modest, but it didn't last."
"Heaven is the very last place to come to rest and don't you be afraid to bet on that!"
"Well, I thought, last night I paid my dues. I faced death. Now I can stay."
