More bounteous run rivers when the ice that locked their flow melts into their waters. And when fine … - Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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Life is hard. Life is beautiful. Life is difficult. Life is wonderful.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

More bounteous run rivers when the ice that locked their flow melts into their waters. And when fine natures relent, their kindness is swelled by the thaw.

Bounteous, Forgiveness, Kindness, Running, Thaw

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Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

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To live On means not yours--be brave in silks and laces, Gallant in steeds; splendid in banquets; all Not yours. Given, uninherited, unpaid for; This is to be a trickster; and to filch Men's art and labour, which to them is wealth, Life, daily bread;--quitting all scores with "friend, You're troublesome!" Why this, forgive me, Is what, when done with a less dainty grace, Plain folks call "Theft.

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As it has been finely expressed, "Principle is a passion for truth. " And as an earlier and homelier writer hath it, "The truths we believe in are the pillars of our world.

Truth, Believe, Passion, World, Finely

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame -to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!

Fame, Hell, Known, Men, Taste, Want

Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.

Book, Exercise, Reading, Sauntering

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