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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. – Willa Cather

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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world. – Willa Cather

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Sunshine
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Willa Cather
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The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always. – Willa Cather

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This gives force to the strong — that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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To be ones own master is to be the slave of self. – Natalie Clifford Barney

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I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman — they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence. – John Keats

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Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I wasnt aware of my dad being an actor when I was young. I remember there was an Australian childrens entertainer on television called Ralph Harris and when Id say my father was an actor, kids would say, you know, oh, is he Ralph Harris? And I had to say no and then they would lose interest. – Jared Harris

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If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out. – George Brett

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