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It is Love and the Lover that live eternally -_x000D_ _x000D_ Don't lend your heart to anything else; all else is borrowed.
RumiRead
How much would you pay to avoid a second Depression?
Ben BernankeRead
I've seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage -- leverage being borrowed money. You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing.
Warren BuffettRead
Cubism is the art of depicting new wholes with formal elements borrowed not only from the reality of vision, but from that of conception.
Guillaume ApollinaireRead
I am speaking of the life of a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children; who has undertaken to cherish it and do it no damage, not because he is duty-bound, but because he loves the world and loves his children...
Wendell BerryRead
Every morning when I wake up, now, I regard it as having another borrowed day.
Malcolm XRead
Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRead
To great sections of the church the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange and foreign thing called the 'program.' This word has been borrowed from the stage and applied with sad wisdom to the type of public service which now passes for worship among us.
Aiden Wilson TozerRead
Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the typewriter that sits before me and love is where yesterday is at.
Anne SextonRead
And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because books, whether bought or borrowed, are too expensive.
George OrwellRead
There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.
Oscar WildeRead
He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely a common part of the world’s store of ideas which had always existed ready-made and which people only borrowed, like books from a library.
Milan KunderaRead
He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
Benjamin FranklinRead
I can't catch her by copying her, I can't draw her with a borrowed stencil. She is all the things a lover should be and quite a few a lover should not. Pin her down? She's not a butterfly. I'm not a wrestler. She's not a target. I'm not a gun. Tell you what she is? She's not Lot no. 27 and I'm not one to brag.
Jeanette WintersonRead

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