The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.
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NICHOLAS BRETON No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.
NICHOLAS BOILEAU He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.
NICHOLAS BOILEAU What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you hav...
NICHOLAS DEWOLF Guilt is the source of sorrow, 'tis the fiend,
Th' avenging fiend, that follows us behind,
Wit...
NICHOLAS ROWE Steps are what you take when you think you have forever.
NICHOLAS LORE The ability to feel fear and keep moving forward distinguishes the living from the merely breathing.
NICHOLAS LORE Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.
NICHOLAS BOILEAU Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.
NICHOLAS BOILEAU Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in our hearts...
NICHOLAS EVANS However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.
NICHOLAS BOILEAU Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.
NICHOLAS BOILEAU A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
NICHOLAS BOILEAU Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.
NICHOLAS BOILEAU If I be the first of us to die,
Let grief not blacken long your sky.
Be bold yet modest in you...
NICHOLAS EVANS The inventor of the Xerox machine will, I am sure, find a special place reserved for him on one of t...
NICHOLAS GOODISON For a long time then, I reflected on this confusion in the astronomical traditions concerning the de...
NICHOLAS COPERNICUS If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires.
NICHOLAS BOILEAU From every blush that kindles in thy cheeks,
Ten thousand little loves and graces spring
To re...
NICHOLAS ROWE To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb.
NICHOLAS BRETON Guilt is the source of sorrows, the avenging fiend that follows us behind with whips and stings.
NICHOLAS ROWE Thou hast prevariated with thy friend,
By underhand contrivances undone me:
And while my open ...
NICHOLAS ROWE It's the first line in your book. I always thought there was a lot of truth in that. Or maybe that's...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Wait. Let me guess. You’re giving me the cold shoulder, right?”
With that, she sighed. “S...
NICHOLAS SPARKS At times, he even admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards.
NICHOLAS SPARKS When I was seventeen, I don't think I even knew what love was. But when it's right, it's right, and ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there a...
NICHOLAS SPARKS God, he suddenly understood, was love in its purest form, and in these last months with his children...
NICHOLAS SPARKS People didn't change. they liked what they liked even if they didn't understand why.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As far as I can tell, dumping soda on people is the equivalent of ‘Hi, it’s nice to meet you’ ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Love is fragile. And we're not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we...
NICHOLAS SPARKS A story about family, first loves, second chances, and the moments in life that leads you back home
NICHOLAS SPARKS I call it God Light, because it reminds me of heaven. Every time the light shines through the window...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Never forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what's been happening i...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I’m stuck babysitting turtle eggs while a volleyball player slash grease monkey slash aquarium vol...
NICHOLAS SPARKS In a lifetime of mistakes, you two are the greatest things that have ever happened to me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS She was a stranger now, but she'd been a friend once, and that was enough for him.
NICHOLAS SPARKS The pieces all fit together. Yet everything was falling apart.
NICHOLAS SPARKS Emotions come and go and can't be controlled so there's no reason to worry about them. That in the e...
NICHOLAS SPARKS He liked her; it was as simple as that.
NICHOLAS SPARKS He was ordinary in a world that loved the extraordinary.
NICHOLAS SPARKS He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed...
NICHOLAS SPARKS