“ Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
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“ Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last. ”
- Abraham Cowley- Copy
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“ The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution. ”
- Sir Walter Raleigh- Copy
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“ Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning. Even Science, the strict measurer, is obliged to start with a make-believe unit, and must fix on a point in the stars' unceasing journey when his sidereal clock shall pretend that time is Nought… ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ A sick man, surrounded by those who love him, nursed by those who wish earnestly that he should live, will recover, when another patient tended by hirelings will die. Doctors decline to see unconscious magnestism in this phenomenon; for them it is the result of intelligent nursing, of exact obedience to their orders; but many a mother knows the virtue of such ardent projections of strong, unceasing prayer. ”
- Honore de Balzac- Copy
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“ All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost — the most legitimate — passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one. ”
- Marquis de Sade- Copy
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“ Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
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