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 Never hold any one by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.  I'm a great believer in luck. I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting. Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air. He who prides himself on giving what he thinks the public wants is often creating a fictitious demand for low standards which he will then satisfy. Give me a kisse, and to that kisse a score; Then to that twenty, adde a hundred more; A thousand to that hundred; so kisse on, To make that thousand up a million; Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kisse afresh, as when we first begun. Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world. Never trust the teller. Trust the tale. Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things. Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself. - J. Hawes Wise men appreciate all men, for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good. A friend is one before whom I may think aloud. The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said 'Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought.' The Greek said, 'All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.' An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity. Better be happy than wise. She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth. The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. In all affairs, love, religion, politics or business, it's a healthy idea, now and then, to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted. We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. You praise the firm restraint with which they write - I'm with you, there, of course: They use the snaffle and the curb all right, But where's the bloody horse? 
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