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It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe. – Thomas Carlyle

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No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment. – Thomas Carlyle

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Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will. – Thomas Carlyle

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We have five senses in which we glory and which we recognize and celebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us. But there are other senses — secret senses, sixth senses, if you will — equally vital, but unrecognized, and unlauded. – Oliver Sacks

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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of. – Michel de Montaigne

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud. – Carol Shields

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If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life. – James A. Michener

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So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure. – Gavin DeGraw

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Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. Youre never as good as youd like to be. So theres always something to hope for. – Washington Irving

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Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger. – Bill Cosby

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Most of the time its the role. Sometimes its the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. Its the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what Im saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy. – Morgan Freeman

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