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Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you


Alfred Vigny

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MARCUS AURELIUS A person treading on the sinful path is not only criticized but is also full of blemishes.
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AYN RAND That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' i...
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There’s a...
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ALFRED MARSHALL Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benef...
ALFRED MARSHALL All labour is directed towards producing some effect.
ALFRED MARSHALL In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by...
ALFRED MARSHALL Consumption may be regarded as negative production.
ALFRED MARSHALL One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
ALFRED KAZIN There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the...
ALFRED AUSTIN Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
ALFRED AUSTIN Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.
ALFRED AUSTIN Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
ALFRED AUSTIN The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden i...
ALFRED AUSTIN I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealis...
ALFRED NOBEL I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK There are many actors who have inspired me: Spencer Tracy for his incredible elegance and, of course...
ALFRED MOLINA When I began playing around at being a physical chemist, I enjoyed very much doing work on the struc...
ALFRED HERSHEY O love, O fire! once he drew
With one long kiss my whole soul through
My lips, as sunlight...
ALFRED TENNYSON The quiet sense of something lost
ALFRED TENNYSON I made spasmodic efforts to work, assuring myself that once I began working I would forget her. The ...
ALFRED HAYES It was inevitable that in doing this I should arrive at new results, and it is perhaps understandabl...
ALFRED EINSTEIN