As thou directest the power, harm or advantage will follow, and the torrent that swept the valley may … - Martin Farquhar Tupper

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I would love a shot at a lead role, but it's not up to me right now. I just try to make the most out of every opportunity I'm given, and hope somebody will get on my side. Until that happens, I'm just a working actor.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

As thou directest the power, harm or advantage will follow, and the torrent that swept the valley may be led to turn a mill.

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Love looketh from the eye, and kindleth love by looking.

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A spark is a molecule of matter, yet may it kindle the world; vast is the mighty ocean, but drops have made it vast. Despise not thou small things, either for evil or for good; for a look may work thy ruin, or a word create thy wealth.

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Travel is a ceaseless fount of surface education, But its wisdom will be simply superficial, if thou add not thoughts to things.

Add, Fount, Superficial, Travel

To-morrow is that lamp upon the marsh, which a traveller never reacheth; To-morrow, the rainbow's cup, coveted prize of ignorance; To-morrow, the shifting anchorage, dangerous trust of manners; To-morrow, the wrecker's beacon, wily snare of the destroyer. Reconcile conviction with delay, and To-morrow is a fatal lie; Frighten resolutions into action, To-morrow is a wholesome truth.

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Our cares are all To-day, our joys are all To-day; And in one little word, our life, what is it but--To-day?

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There is a sort of mystery to kitsch. When did it begin? If it is just simply another name for faking emotions, it ought to have been a permanent part of the human condition.

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I am appalled that the term we use to talk about aging is 'anti'. Aging is human evolution in its pure form. Death, taxes and aging. . . . We are ALL going to age and soften and mellow and transition.

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Bobby Jones

Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying.

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Leonardo da Vinci

When you look at a wall spotted with stains. . . you may discover a resemblance to various landscapes, beautiful with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees. Or again, you may see battles and figures in action, or strange faces and costumes, and an endless variety of objects which you could reduce to complete and well-drawn figures.

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