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Quote by Elizabeth Bowen
Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hosti

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities. – Elizabeth Bowen

Other quotes by Elizabeth Bowen

There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone. – Elizabeth Bowen

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alone
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Elizabeth Bowen
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Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. Ones relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Loneliness
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Elizabeth Bowen
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The perfecting of ones self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development. – Confucius

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Growth

Spend in pure converse our eternal day;
Think each in each, immediately wise;
Learn all we lacked before; hear, know, and say
What this tumultuous body now denies;
And feel, who have laid our groping hands away;
And see, no longer blinded by our eyes. – Rupert Brooke

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Growth

Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees. – Karl Baker

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Growth

In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important. – Les Brown

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Growth

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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the minds eye only, fade out in sand. – Nadine Gordimer

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History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up. – Voltaire

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The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons. – Charles Dickens

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Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty. – John Bunyan

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