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"I just think of people," she continued, "whether they seem right where they are and fit into a picture. I don't mind if they don't do anything. I don't see why they should; in fact it always astonishes me when people do anything."
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"All pursuits are pointless and fruitless unless and until love and compassion are found and then are the foundation and destination of all you do."
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"Some of us fast so that we can have less discomfort in life. The reason is not far-fetched - God is not interested in your comfort. He is more interested in your purpose."
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"Your life would never have a meaning if you don't have a goal or purpose."
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"God knows what should be your priority and what should be beneficial for you."
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"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."
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"A life without increase, production and multiplication is a wasted one."
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"Only your calling can give you fulfillment."
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"Purposefulness is a must."
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"Every day should have threads of passionate pursuits within it."
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"Life is short only if you are not living your purpose."
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"I suppose that there's a caddish streak in every man that runs crosswise across his character and disposition and general outlook."
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"The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter."
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"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."
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"An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards."
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"Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again."
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"No decent career was ever founded on a public."
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"It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before."
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"Most of the big shore places were closed now. And there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of the ferryboat across the sound. And as the moon rose higher, the inessential houses began to melt away till gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes, A fresh green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams. For a transitory, enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent. Face to face, for the last time in history, with something commensurate to its capacity for wonder."
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"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."
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"Action is character."
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