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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. - Winston Churchill We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

- Gerald Brenan | Aging and Old Age Quotes

Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the gypsies.

- Gerald Brenan | Poets and Poetry Quotes

Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

- Gerald Brenan | Words and Language Quotes

It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.

- Gerald Brenan | Positive Quotes