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The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little. ↗

— William R. Alger

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My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living. ↗

— Graham Norton

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When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it. ↗

— Orlando Gibbons

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The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. ↗

— Zelda Fitzgerald

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The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

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Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself. ↗

— Robert Collier

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In my sport, we're measured in millimeters and fractions of millimeters. ↗

— Matt Emmons

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