"They, that unnamed they, they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me."

Corso, Gregory on perseverance
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"If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say give them up, for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on morality   

"Growing old is not growing up."

Horton, Doug on age and aging
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"I want to be all used up when I die."

Shaw, George Bernard on death
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"Determination is the wake-up call to the human will."

Robbins, Anthony on determination
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"I tried to give up drugs by drinking."

Reed, Lou on drugs
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"Men do not fail; they give up trying."

Root, Elihu on failure
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"The trick is growing up without growing old."

Stengel, Casey on age and aging   

"God always has another custard pie up his sleeve."

Redgrave, Lynn on god   

"Those who sleep with dogs gets up with fleas."

Proverb, American on influence
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"Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable."

Allen, Woody on life
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"Life is made up of marble and mud."

Hawthorne, Nathaniel on life   

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"Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight."

Diller, Phyllis on anger
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"I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing."

Bacall, Lauren on music   

"We could hardly wait to get up in the morning."

Wright, Wilbur on passion   

"When pleasure interferes with business, give up business."

Proverb, American on pleasure   

"The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger."

Aleichem, Sholom on riches   

"Cheer up! The worst is yet to come!"

Johnson, Philander on cheerfulness   

"When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion."

Proverb, Ethiopian on work
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"Work your way up or rust your way out."

Holton on work   

"You can't choose up sides on a round world."

Dyer, Wayne on choice
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"The cynic never grows up, but commits intellectual suicide."

Brown, Dean Charles R. on cynics and cynicism
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"People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes."

Buren, Abigail Van on fights and fighting
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"Learn to pause... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you."

King, Doug on learning
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"Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set."

Unknown, Source on mind
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"A patient man is one who can put up with himself."

Unknown, Source on patience   

"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up."

Ruth, Babe on perseverance
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"Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator."

Orben, Robert on time   

"We all end up in a single bed sooner or later."

Proverb on cooperation
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"Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up."

Terence on friends and friendship
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"Some people are electrifying, they light up a room when they leave."

Proverb, Yiddish on people
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"Here lies an Atheist: All Dressed Up and No Place to Go."

Epitaph on atheism
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"If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness."

Smith, Alexander on secrets   

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"I don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day."

Evangelista, Linda on sleep   

"It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains."

Rice, Alice Caldwell on worry   

"When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut"

Unknown, Source on listening
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"A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship."

Francis De Sales, St. on quarrels
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"Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark."

Henry, O. on famous last words
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"Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people."

Baruch, Bernard M. on art   

"Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties."

Renard, Jules on love
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