Quote by Edith Wharton
People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have al

People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead. – Edith Wharton

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They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods. – Edith Wharton

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Butterflies
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There are moments when a mans imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny. – Edith Wharton

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Imagination
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There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul. – Edith Wharton

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Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. – Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. – Wayne Dyer

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Without the karma of good deeds, they are only destroying themselves. – Sri Guru Granth Sahib

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Worthless people blame their karma. – Burmese Proverb

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True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. – Milan Kundera

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Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. – William Shakespeare

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When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day. – V. S. Naipaul

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