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"I reach my object and say, Wander no more. All else is trial and make-believe."
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"I reach my object and say, Wander no more. All else is trial and make-believe."

"You see it as me going back. I see it as me staying on track."

"Impossible is what you say to yourself when you have given up."

"If you fail a thousand times, find a thousand and one ways to succeed."

"Because failure works double time, to get success, work triple time."

"Sachin's pedal sweep confirmed that physical conditions and age cannot stop you from hitting boundaries."

"The will is the strong blind man who carries on his shoulders the lame man who can see."

"There is no excuse to give for being a beggar. We all have imaginations to work out our dreams. Work yours out."

"But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep."
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"If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?"


"Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There is a brown pool on the table-it is running among your books and papers. Now you mop it up, clumsily, with your pocket-hankerchief. You then stuff your hankerchief back into your pocket-that is not Byron; that is so essentially you that if I think of you in twenty years' time, when we are both famous, gouty and intolerable, it will be by that scene: and if you are dead, I shall weep."


"Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile of attitudes."


"No doubt we should be, on the whole, much worse off than we are without our astonishing gift for illusion."


"To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries. Everywhere else we may be bound by laws and conventions-there we have none."


"I'll be blasted', he said, 'if I ever write another word, or try to write another word, to please Nick Greene or the Muse. Bad, good, or indifferent, I'll write, from this day forward, to please myself."


"She could have wept. It was bad, it was bad, it was infinitely bad! She could have done it differently of course; the colour could have been thinned and faded; the shapes etherealised; that was how Paunceforte would have seen it. But then she did not see it like that. She saw the colour burning on a framework of steel; the light of a butterfly's wing lying upon the arches of a cathedral."


"Now that one was mature then, said Peter, one could watch, one could understand, and one did not lose the power of feeling, he said. No, that is true, said Sally. She felt more deeply, more passionately, every year. It increased, he said, alas, perhaps, but one should be glad of it- it went on increasing in his experience."
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