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"It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling."
"Let us leave theories there and return to here's hear."
"But anyone who has really made sacrifices knows that he wanted and got something in return perhaps something for something of himself - that he gave up in order to have more here or at least to feel that he has "more"."
"Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in."
"Now Spring returns; but not to me returns."
"If you become deadlocked,return to the prime point."
"I felt my energy return and that I said to myself, in any event I'll recover from it, I'll pick up my pencil that I put down in my great discouragement and I'll get back to drawing, and from then on, it seems to me, everything has changed for me."
"Some pretend want of power to make a competent return; and you shall find in others a kind of graceless modesty, that makes a man ashamed of requiting an obligation, because it is a confession that he has received one."
"Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return."
"God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually you will return to him."
"Every major technological innovation propels humanity forward to the point of no return."
"The person giving the advice returns the confidence placed in him with a disinterested eagerness... and he is usually guided only by his own interest or reputation."
"Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed."
"The critics are like tourists who return from a trip saying they've "done" Machu Picchu: "Okay, we've done magical realism," so now we can throw it out."
"Everything comes from everything, and everything is made out of everything, and everything returns into everything."
"Decide not rashly. The decision made Can never be recalled. The gods implore not, Plead not, solicit not; they only offer Choice and occasion, which once being passed Return no more. Dost thou accept the gift?"
"Only those return to Eternity Who on earth seek out Eternity."
"When money is once parted with, it can never return."
"My good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be."
"Nothing can doom man but the belief in doom, for this prevents the movement of return."
