"He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly."
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"We're going to start with small, easy things; then, little by little we shall try our hand at the big things. And after that, after we finish the big things, we shall undertake the impossible."
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"Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get older, you understand and you appreciate it."
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"Torment yourself as little as possible, then you'll torment me less."
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"I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit vain, it seems to me."
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"We are all shitty little snowflakes dancing in the universe."
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"Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten."
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"There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel."
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"I said to Life, I would hear Death speak. And Life raised her voice a little higher and said, You hear him now."
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"I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity."
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"I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth."
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"Many littles make a much."
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"I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself."
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"The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves."
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"What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much."
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"Prayer is the little implement through which men reach; where presence is denied them."
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"Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one."
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"A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon."
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"What's the harm of a little mystification? It sure beats boring statistical analyses."
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"I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious."
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