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Once In A Century A Man May Be Ruined Or Made Insufferable By Praise.
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Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise.
But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.
-- John Masefield
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A brave man dies only once, while a coward dies only once also.
It's just that the brave man gets it over with more quickly." -- C. E. Whitfield...
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior. -- Socrate
A bachelor is a man who never made the same mistake once.
Success is the brand on the brow of the man who has aimed too low. -- John Masefield (1878-1967)
Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment- the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
-- Jorge Luis Borge...
If you don't have enough time to accomplish something, consider the work finished once it's begun.
-- John Cage...
Ah, surely nothing dies but something mourns.
-- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto iii, Stanza 108...
Yet man dies not while the world, at once his mother and his monument, remains.
His name is forgotten, indeed, but the breath he breathed yet stirs the pine-tops on the mountains, the sound of the words he spoke yet echoes on through space...
It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century.
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