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

Other quotes by Edith Wharton

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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Friendship
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Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. – Edith Wharton

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Age
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O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall go to worse souls, or if better to the better… In every succession of life and death, you will do and suffer what like may fitly suffer at the hands of like. This is the justice of heaven. – Plato

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Karma

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

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Karma

Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein. – Proverb

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Karma

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

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There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within. – Susan Anton

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Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. – George Washington

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I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again. – Bill Maher

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great

The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his imagination. – Gaetano Salvemini, Historian and Scientist

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History