"Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it."

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Source : John Masefield (1941). “Dead Ned and Live and Kicking Ned”

John Masefield

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“Every breath is a new beginning and a new chance.”

Source : Julia Gregson (2012). “Jasmine Nights: A Novel”, p.312, Simon and Schuster
“Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.”

Source : J.B. MacKinnon (2013). “The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be”, p.93, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“But I've really learned you don't have to fit in. No matter where you go, you're always going to be you and if they don't like you for who you are, then what's the point of being someone else?”
“Most failures could have been converted into successes if someone had held on another minute or made more effort.”
“Trump's victory is an opportunity for Israel to immediately retract the notion of a Palestinian state.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“I'll be gray by the time I'm 30, but I like my hair. It looks shiny. I like the way it looks when those highlights are picked up on camera.”
“I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I'd take a shell and a bag of powder, I'd put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun.”
“Simplicity, without variety, is wholly insipid.”

Source : 1753 The Analysis of Beauty

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