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Every man should have laws of his own, I should think commandments

Every man should have laws of his own, I should think commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work – or worry. – Gilbert Parker

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In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind. – Gilbert Parker

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good
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Gilbert Parker
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It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them. – Gilbert Parker

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Friendship
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Gilbert Parker
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it. – Rainer Maria Rilke

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work

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass. – Pearl S. Buck

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work

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. – Arthur Conan Doyle

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work

Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. – Marcus Aurelius

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work

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I have a “carpe diem” mug and, truthfully, at six in the morning the words do not make me want to seize the day. They make me want to slap a dead poet. – Joanne Sherman

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Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who hate freedom. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse this is not what Americans do, these are not our values. – Peter Singer

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To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that one should be at once Rose Bowl princess, medieval scholar, Saint Joan, Milly Theale, Temple Drake, Eleanor of Aquitaine, one – Joan Didion

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Large, naked raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who lie in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter. – Fran Lebowitz

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