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Most prisons have wide gates!
Katherine Cecil Thurston / Novelist
Gates
Prison
Wide
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Cynicism ... is the trade-mark of failure.
Katherine Cecil Thurston / Novelist
Cynicism
Mark
Trade
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A good horse is the best company in the world.
Katherine Cecil Thurston / Novelist
Horse
Ikea
World
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Florence - the city of tranquillity made manifest.
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Cities
Florence
Made
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No weapons are more potent than brevity and simplicity.
Katherine Cecil Thurston / Novelist
Brevity
Simplicity
Weapons
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A night journey is essentially a thing of possibilities.
Katherine Cecil Thurston / Novelist
Journey
Book
Night
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by the mercy of God all the ideas of youth are reversible!
Katherine Cecil Thurston / Novelist
Ideas
Mercy Of God
Youth
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Nobody is such an individualist as the man who advocates equality.
Katherine Cecil Thurston / Novelist
Equality
Men
He Man
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Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone.
Katherine Cecil Thurston / Novelist
Great Love
Light
Love Is
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We Irish are born dreamers; sometimes we never wake up at all, and then we're counted failures.
Katherine Cecil Thurston / Novelist
Dreamer
Sometimes
Wake Up
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To give! To give without hope of recompense, without question, without fear! That was the message of life.
Katherine Cecil Thurston / Novelist
Giving
Messages
Without Hope
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It is sacrilege to attempt analysis of birth or love or death. Death and birth, the mysteries! Love, the revelation!
Katherine Cecil Thurston / Novelist
Death
Analysis
Birth
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We have all of us the two natures - the brother and the sister! Not one of us is quite woman - not one of us is all man!
Katherine Cecil Thurston / Novelist
Men
Brother
Two
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Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact a desperate interest.
Katherine Cecil Thurston / Novelist
Desperate
May
Success And Failure
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in this curious world there are certain beings to whom it is given to say of all things with naïve faith, not 'I shall seek,' but 'I shall find.
Katherine Cecil Thurston / Novelist
Confidence
Smile
Curious
Given
World
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An eight-mile drive over rain-washed Irish roads in the quick-falling dusk of autumn is an experience trying to the patience, even to the temper, of the average Saxon.
Katherine Cecil Thurston / Novelist
Book
Fall
Rain
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Enthusiasm is ever a gracious, pardonable thing, because in its essentials are youth and zeal and all high, white-hot qualities whose roots strike not in the base earth.
Katherine Cecil Thurston / Novelist
Quality
Essentials
Roots
White
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No first step can be really great; it must of necessity possess more of prophecy than of achievement; nevertheless it is by the first step that a man marks the value, not only of his cause, but of himself.
Katherine Cecil Thurston / Novelist
Men
Time
Firsts
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The saddest human experience is to view alone the scenes one has viewed through other eyes - to walk solitary where one has walked in company - to have its particular barbed shaft aimed at one from every stick and stone that mark familiar ways.
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Eye
Stones
Views
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The most splendid moment of an adventure is not always the moment of fulfilment, not even the moment of conception, but the moment of first accomplishment, when the adventurer deliberately sets his face toward the new road, knowing that his boats are burned.
Katherine Cecil Thurston / Novelist
Accomplishment
Adventure
Knowing
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Of all the ills that circumstance forces upon man, separation from a beloved object is, perhaps, the most salutary. Separation is the crucible wherein love undergoes the test absolute; in the fire of loss, grief softens to indifference or hardens to enduring need.
Katherine Cecil Thurston / Novelist
Men
Grief
Loss
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Journeys end in lovers' meeting.' ... But the real journey - the journey of adventure itself - is frequently another matter: often gray, often loverless, often demanding from the secret soul of the adventurer spirit and inspiration, lest the blood turn cold in sick dismay, and the brain cloud under its weight of nostalgia.
Katherine Cecil Thurston / Novelist
Adventure
Inspiration
Real
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