To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony.
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What is harder than rock, or softer than water Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.
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Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.
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Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
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Women want medicore men. And men are working hard to become as medicore as possible.
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He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him.
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I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere in every child they had learned that I differed from them only in years and experience, and that as I, an ordinary human being, loved and respected them, I expected payment in kind.
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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him Whose
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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
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Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
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Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
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If it was an overnight success, it was one long, hard, sleepless night.
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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
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Yearning is not only a good way to go crazy but also a pretty good place to hide out from hard truth.
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There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
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It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.
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The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.
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The path of immortality is hard, and only a few find it. The rest await the Great Day when the wheels of the universe shall be stopped and the immortal sparks shall escape from the sheaths of substance. Woe unto those who wait, for they must return again, unconscious and unknowing, to the seed-ground of stars, and await a new beginning.
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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.
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The tempest uproots not the soft grasses that bow low on all sides; on the lofty trees it strikes hard. It is against the mighty that the mighty puts forth his prowess.
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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; perty and wealth have both failed.
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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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