Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how … - William Penn

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I have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories of mine that have taken me ten or twelve years to get written.

William Penn

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

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I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.

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Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

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The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

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Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

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Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

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Sherwood Anderson

I have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories of mine that have taken me ten or twelve years to get written.

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I will not die an unlived life. . . I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me. . . I choose to risk my significance.

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