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All Quotes Collection
"God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it."
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"Doing shows is always a side of skating that I've loved, it's the performing. I get to do that without the pressure, it's always fun between the skaters and the preparation, the show is always so much fun."
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"Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once."
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"Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do."
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"On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round."
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"One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake."
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"The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!"
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"That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!"
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"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?"
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"Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay."
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"If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents."
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"When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance."
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"It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave."
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"To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding."
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