Elizabeth Barrett Browning
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
If thou must love me, let it be for nought, except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile, her look, her way of speaking gently, for a trick of thought that falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought a sense of pleasant ease on such a day. For these things in themselves, beloved, may be changed, or change for thee, and love so wrought, may be unwrought so.
Who so loves believes the impossible.
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
And that's how you play "Get the Guests".
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Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Every truth has four corners, as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Snakes ! Why did it have to be snakes ?
Be the ball.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Where's the rest of me ?
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Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Sign: "Illiterate? Write for free help."
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There's no place like home.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.
What do they think I am, dumb or something ? Why, I make more money than Calvin Coolidge ! Put together !
What's meant to be will always find a way
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it can not be seen or measured - yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more than any material possession ever could.
It is not what is poured into a student that counts but what is planted.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
You're as old as you behave.
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This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
It's always too soon to quit !
Is it just me or is the grim reaper a straight-up hottie ?
Look at that ! Look how she moves. That's just like Jell-O on springs. She must have some sort of built-in motor. I tell you, it's a whole different sex !
One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
Love like you'll never be hurt.
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Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.
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Truth fears no questions.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
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Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
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Without a general an army is lost.
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Anything is possible.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
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Who's on first.
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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
I am not a toy. I am a spork !
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Never, never, never give up.
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