I always found in myself a dread of west and love of east. Where I ever got such an idea I cannot say, unless it could be that morning came over the peaks of the Gabilans and the night drifted back from the ridges of the Santa Lucias. It may be that the birth and death of the day had some part in my feeling about the two ranges of mountains. John Steinbeck
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  2. Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. - Robert Louis Stevenson

  3. A thirst for water may be an oasis in your day. - Anthony T.Hincks

  4. Your smile is what gets me through the day and my dreams of you are what gets me through the night. - Anthony T. Hincks

  5. It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye. - Jodi Picoult

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  1. What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

  2. It has always seemed strange to me... The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of...

  3. Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

  4. Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.

  5. Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically sure. Each of his brothers and sisters had looks or gifts or fortune. Tom loved all of them passionately, but he felt heavy and earth-bound. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>He climbed...

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