

“What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
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“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
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“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
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“Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
― Tao Teh Ching
― Tao Teh Ching

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
― The Story of My Life
― The Story of My Life
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