No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.
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Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.
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Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man--yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.
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In years to come the phrase 'tight as Graham’s Arsenal' may replace the present colourful colloquialism describing someone reluctant to part with money.
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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
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Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.
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The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who ...
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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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