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"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
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"Maybe good luck was like bad luck in that it took a while to sink in."
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"She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity."
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Personal Development
"Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves."
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"I don't believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason."
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Personal Development
"Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish."
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"How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?"
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"Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck."
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"Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way."
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"Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful, no. Amusing, yes."
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"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."
Morality
"There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly."
Justice
"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."
Art
"Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility."
Morality
"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications."
Time
"It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man having once shown himself capable of original writing is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion."
Philosophy
"Hitch your wagon to a star."
Inspirational
"Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying."
Perception
"Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man."
Happiness
"Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors."
Philosophy
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