False enchantment can last a lifetime.
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Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the nightingale still will sing. Because it is neither preaching nor commanding nor urging. It is just singing. And in the beginning was not a Word, but a chirrup.
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Heaven endures and the earth last a long time because they do not live for themselves.
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Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.
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Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows.
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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
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I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last; a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
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Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!
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There are two types of pain in this life; that of discipline, which lasts a short while…and that of regret, which can last a life time.
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Time may heal all wounds, but scars can last a lifetime.
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