"Always pay; for first or last you..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always pay; for first or last you must pay your entire debt.
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“Only that mind draws me which I cannot read.”
“All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. It is vain to hurry it. By trusting it to the end it shall ripen into truth, and you shall know why you believe.”
“a good reader makes a good book”
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“When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about. And if I have a chance to matter to the growth and hopes and wishes of little girls, that's something I can't take lightly. So I do factor them in when I'm thinking about what to wear, and what to say, and whether or not to go out to bars even thought I'm not twenty-one.”
“Life is the result of all your choices.”
“External conditions can, to a certain extent, reduce, but never cancel individual repsonsibility.”
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“Although under particular circumstances, the violence method - any method - can be justified, nevertheless once you commit violence, then counterviolence will be returned.”
“If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.”
“Every hour of lost time is a chance of future misfortune.”