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• There's nothing you can do that can't be done, Nothing you can sing that can't be sung, Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game, It's easy...
  All you need is love.

  John Lennon

  Life, Song, Games

  "Song: All You Need Is Love (Magical Mystery Tour)". July 7, 1967.

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• If only we try to live sincerely, it will go well with us, even though we are certain to experience real sorrow, and great disappointments, and also will probably commit great faults and do wrong things, but it certainly is true, thatit is better to be high-spirited, even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love, is well done.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Life, Disappointment, Real

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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• Unless you can feel when the song is done
  No other is sweet in its rhythm;
  Unless you can feel when left by one
  That all men else go with him.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Life, Song, Sweet

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “A Woman's Shortcomings”

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• I do not love thee less for what is done,
  And cannot be undone. Thy very weakness
  Hath brought thee nearer to me, and henceforth
  My love will have a sense of pity in it,
  Making it less a worship than before.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Weakness, Worship

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.895, Delphi Classics

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• O Love, O great god Love, what have I done,
  That thou shouldst hunger so after my death?
  My heart is harmless as my life's first day:
  Seek out some false fair woman, and plague her
  Till her tears even as my tears fill her bed.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Life, Heart, Tears

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.656, Delphi Classics

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• I do sometimes think I could have done without the drugs actually; that was a waste of time, and a huge risk. But then again, there's nothing I can change, so in a way regret is pointless.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Music, Regret, Thinking

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• Of course we're doing it for the money. We've always done it for the money.

  Mick Jagger

  Music, Courses

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• I feel very, very gratified when people are complimentary to what I have done or appreciated it with sincerity... It makes me feel that maybe I did do something that was proper and that was right.

  Elvin Jones

  Music, People, Jazz

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• So What or Kind of Blue were done in that era, the right hour, the right day. It's over; it's on the record.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Blue, Records

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• I'm sure critics have their purpose, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what he did.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Should Have, Littles

  "The Duke Ellington Reader".

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• All that I've played, all that I've sung, I couldn't have done any other way.

  Jack Teagarden

  Music, Way, Jazz

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• Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light
  in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?

  Matthew Arnold

  Nature, Light, Sky

  'Empedocles on Etna' (1852) act 1, sc. 2, l. 397

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• Parenting tip: complement your child on something well done when they don't think you are looking!

  Kevin Heath

  Children, Parenting, Thinking

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• Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. It is the chief and most memorable success, for history is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Memorable, Men, Poetry

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.99

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• When a man has done me an evil turn once, I don't like to give him the opportunity to do so twice.

  John A. Macdonald

  Opportunity, Men, Evil

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• It is wholly wrong to blame Marx for what was done in his name, as it is to blame Jesus for what was done in his

  Tony Benn

  Jesus, Names, Politics

  In Alan Freeman The Benn Heresy (1982) p. 172

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• Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people, not to mention our own.

  Gore Vidal

  Government, People, Half

  Gore Vidal (2002). “Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated, Causes of Conflict in the Last Empire”, p.10, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Years, Wish

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• At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.

  Robert Frost

  Relationship, Money, Issues

  Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.402, Harvard University Press

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• The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal toward retarding it.

  Matilda Joslyn Gage

  Civilization, Religion, Atheism

  Matilda Joslyn Gage (1893). “Woman, Church and State: A Historical Account of the Status of Woman Through the Christian Ages: with Reminiscences of Matriarchate”

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• Christianity is NOT a religion; it is the proclamation of the end of religion. Religion is a human activity dedicated to the job of reconciling God to humanity and humanity to itself. The Gospel, however - the Good News of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, is the astonishing announcement that God has done the whole work of reconciliation without a scrap of human assistance. It is the bizarre proclamation that religion is over - period.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Jesus, Jobs, Humanity

  Robert Farrar Capon (1996). “The Astonished Heart: Reclaiming the Good News from the Lost-and-found of Church History”, p.2, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in Biblical times if a man committed a sin the extermination of the whole surrounding nation-cattle and all-was likely to happen. I knew that Providence was not particular about the rest, so that He got somebody connected with the one He was after.

  Mark Twain

  Biblical, Men, Religion

  Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain in Eruption (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.177, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• Under our institutions the only way to perfect the Government is to perfect the individual citizen. It is necessary to reach the mind and soul of the individual. I know of no way that this can be done save through the influence of religion and education. By religion I do not mean fanaticism or bigotry; by education I do not mean the cant of the schools, but a broad and tolerant faith, loving thy neighbor as thyself, and a training and experience that enables the human mind to see into the heart of things.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Heart, School, Mean

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• Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; Take honour from me, and my life is done.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Karma, Respect

  'Richard II' (1595) act 1, sc. 1, l. 177

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• Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  Life, Inspiring, Beautiful

  Alfred Whitney Griswold (1959). “Liberal Education and the Democratic Ideal: And Other Essays”

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