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"Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it."
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"I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg."
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"Irresponsibility is a sin with a high price tag."
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"God is willing to reveal His plans to us and His ways, if He sees that we are willing to stand till the end and take responsibility for our nation."
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"You are the grand estate and administrator of - now."
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"You are responsible for doing what good you can with what you have, and any good is better than none."
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"The owner of actions [doer] is called a worldly person [sansaari]."
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"Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore, should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience; and dying so, death is to him advantage; or not dying, the time was blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained; and in him that escapes, it were no sin to think that, making God so free an offer, He let him outlive the day to see His greatness and to teach others how they should prepare."
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"Wherever you are you have to work to earn your own living."
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"I am so often the architect of my own pain and the engineer of my own failures."
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"She had other favourite lines. Our gas oven blew up. The repairman came out and said he didn't like the look of it, which was unsurprising as the oven and the wall were black. Mrs Winterson replied, 'It's a fault to heaven, a fault against the dead, and a fault to nature.' That is a heavy load for a gas oven to bear. She liked that phrase and it was more than once used towards me; when some well-wisher asked how I was, Mrs W looked down and sighed, 'She's a fault to heaven, a fault against the dead, and a fault to nature.'This was even worse for me than it had been for the gas oven. I was particularly worried about the 'dead' part, and wondered which buried and unfortunate relative I had so offended."
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"Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person."
Nothing
"When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge."
Knowledge
"To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived."
Art
"It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
Truth
"For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination."
Imagination
"Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."
Time
"London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained."
Writing
"Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature."
Nature
"The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside."
Writing
"I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner."
Impression
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