I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.

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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. ― Thomas A. Edison

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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else. — Bette Davis

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In dietary terms, being shod is rather similar to cooking one's feet, as opposed to barefoot being raw. ― Mango Wodzak, Destination Eden - Eden Fruitarianism Explained

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Then I began, as though I had never seen my shoes before, to study their expression, their mimelike movements when I moved my toes, their shape, and the worn-out leather they had; and I discovered that their wrinkles and their white seams gave them an expression, provided them with a face. Something of my own being had gone over into these shoes, they struck me as being a ghost of my "I," a breathing part of myself. . . . ― Knut Hamsun

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Because shoes got by devilish ways will burn your feet. ― Langston Hughes

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Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes.

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I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work ― Thomas Edison

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Love can be cleaned, bought, received as a gift, found on the street, but it cannot be snatched away by force.

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He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it. — Dante Alighieri

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