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"The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth."
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"You may not be able to control the whole world, but you may learn to control your inner world through yoga."
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"Tomorrow is the next step in life-not the next stop in life."
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"Everyone has greatness in them! To bring it out, we just have to empower them."
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"Before you wear a crown of gold, life sometimes makes you wear a crown of thorns."
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"The decisions of citizens either in matters of private business or political life of the nation, are directly related to the prevailing value system of the nation."
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"Never despise a seed, one day it will rise and bloom into a forest."
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"Convert your knowledge into product."
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"Your challenge in life does not define you but only refines you."
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"I always thought youth were idealists - now, I'm not so sure - I'm more idealistic now then at 17..."
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"A shrub that bears fruit deserves to be watered more than a tree that does not."
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"To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much."
Romantic
"One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name."
History
"Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist."
Suffering
"The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story."
Romantic
"But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do."
Fiction
"The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth."
Growth
"But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy."
Literature
"The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in."
Life
"But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time."
Time
"Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first."
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