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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

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Everything yields to diligence. ↗

— Antiphanes

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A shady business never yields a sunny life. ↗

— B. C. Forbes

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In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a "failed experiment." Any test that yields valid data is a valid test. ↗

— Adam Savage

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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness. ↗

— Stendhal

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Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree. ↗

— Johann Arndt

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There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory. ↗

— Francis Drake

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The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced. ↗

— Jane Bryant Quinn

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Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature. ↗

— Gao Xingjian

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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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