#vin

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. ↗

— George Eliot

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I want to be a giving woman and just a nice person in general. ↗

— Serena Williams

#giving #i #just #nice #nice person

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

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Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. ↗

— George Eliot

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Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. ↗

— George Eliot

#discipline #first #genius #great #little

Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute. ↗

— Dirk Bogarde

#feel #hardly #however #living #may

There was a very convincing argument made that the extremists have won and the aggression is now supported by the majority, therefore fighting until surrender was the only alternative. ↗

— Joichi Ito

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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

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I was a healthy young man, and I thought I was invincible before I was diagnosed with kidney disease. ↗

— Sean Elliott

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Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker. ↗

— Wade Boggs

#baseball #begins #days #even #fame