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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 are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it. – Edith Wharton

Category:
Mirrors
Author
Edith Wharton
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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

Category:
Friendship
Author
Edith Wharton
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Karma
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Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven. – Mary Baker Eddy

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Karma

Men may not get all they pay for in this world; but they must certainly pay for all they get. – Frederick Douglas

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Karma

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

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Karma

The cool thing about free will is that even if one has a huge bag of karma there is still a lot of free will for all those souls coming into the world. – Kuan Yin

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Karma

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Most people already know what theyre doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change. – Joel Osteen

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Change

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. – Grover Cleveland

Category:
History

Honest to God, all my life I have had such a fear of spiders. In fact, I use to have a reoccurring dream about one. Very clearly, it was black with a red head. It would sit up in the corner of the bedroom and when it started getting closer, I would wake up in a panic. – Tippi Hedren

Category:
Fear

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Category:
Society