"As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark...so many a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose."
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"If wishes would prevail with me, my purpose should not fail with me."
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"But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves."
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"What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory."
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"The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone"
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"The only way a man can remain consistent amid changing circumstances is to change with them while preserving the same dominating purpose."
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"I am not on Facebook and on Twitter because the purpose of my life is to avoid messages. I receive too many messages from the world, and so I try to avoid that."
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"According to our purpose, motivation and sincerity, which compose our devotion, Krishna reveals Himself to us."
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"To purify the heart is the one and only purpose that God has created this human life."
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"The purpose of computers is human freedom."
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"For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought."
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"The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought"
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"Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character."
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"We are all cells of a much larger body, and like the cells of our own body it is hard for us to glimpse the whole pattern of the whole of what is happening, and yet we can sense that there is a purpose, and there is a pattern."
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"A writer who obtains his full purpose loses himself in his own lustre."
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"Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past."
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"Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet."
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"Life is surely given us for higher purposes than to gather what our ancestors have wisely thrown away, and to learn what is of no value but because it has been forgotten."
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"... all reputable falconers agreed that for hunting purposes the only way you could reliably bring down prey with a wowhawk was by using it in a slingshot."
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"Wizards don't believe in gods in the same way that most people don't find it necessary to believe in, say, tables. They know they're there, they know they're there for a purpose, they'd probably agree that they have a place in a well-organised universe, but they wouldn't see the point of believing, of going around saying "O great table, without whom we are as naught." Anyway, either the gods are there whether you believe in them or not, or exist only as a function of the belief, so either way you might as well ignore the whole business and, as it were, eat off your knees."
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