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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Fame
Francis Bacon

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Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
Winter
Willa Cather

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If a man owns land, the land owns him.
Property
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
Life and Living
W. C. Fields

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Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.
Victory
Robert Herrick

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Farmers only worry during the growing season, but towns people worry all the time.
Farming and Farmers
Edgar Watson Howe

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The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.
Home
Kin Hubbard

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Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.
Vision
Herbert Kaufman

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
Cities and City Life
D. H. Lawrence

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In our society a man is known by the company he owns.
Influence
Gerald F. Lieberman

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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
Failure
Francis Picabia

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The last act crowns the play.
Plays
John Ruskin

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God owns heaven but He craves the earth.
World
Anne Sexton

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.
Fear
William Shakespeare

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Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
Adversity
William Shakespeare

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Writers are a little below the clowns and a little above the trained seals.
Writers and Writing
John Steinbeck

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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.
Adversity
Source Unknown

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun