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"I shall be up before you are awake; I shall be afield before you are up; and I shall have breakfasted before you are afield. In short, I shall astonish you all."
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"To take the island, cut all sources of retreat. Burn your boats and go all in."

"How strongly do you believe in what you want to do? How prepared are you live and die for it? You are not likely to succeed when you always doubt your capacity to reach higher heights in your pursuits."

"People started down the road with good intentions, but the moment the road became rough or difficult, they'd abandon it."

"You have what it takes to finish excellently if you strive toward it."

"Water drops erode mountains not because of their size, but their persistence."

"It is difficult to soar to your destiny carrying the burden of doubt, impossible to soar to your destiny carrying the burden of fear, but conceivable to soar to your destiny carried by the wings of faith."

"Stop nourishing other people's ideas and beliefs in your life. Take up your own idea and endeavor to accomplish it."

"Success and perseverance are Siamese twins: where one goes the other follows."

"It is easy to give up than to endure. Always choose the latter."

"Salute to the Thief. Junaid of Baghdad was passing the scene of a public hanging, where a thief was on the scaffold. Junaid bowed towards the criminal. Someone asked him: 'What did you do that?' Junaid said: 'I was bowing before his single-mindedness. For his aim, that man has given his life."
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"You are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness."


"All the while she wondered if any strange good thing might come of her being in her ancestral land; and some spirit within her rose automatically as the sap in the twigs. It was unexpected youth, surging up anew after its temporary check, and bringing with it hope, and the invincible instinct towards self-delight."


"I look into my glass,And view my wasting skin,And say, 'Would God it came to passMy heart had shrunk as thin!"


"He's the man we were in search of, that's true, and yet he's not the man we were in search of. For the man we were in search of was not the man we wanted."


"The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible."


"Ah, dear Jude; that's because you are like a totally deaf manobserving people listening to music. You say 'What are theyregarding? Nothing is there.' But something is."
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