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after nineteen years of running after good marks and prizes and grants, i was letting up, slowing down, dropping clean out of the race.

A good man, in his darkest yearning, Is still aware of virtue’s ways.

The finest master is a sloppy worker.

If you want to play well, if you want to exceed at something, you put in the time. You sweat and struggle when most other people are not.

Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never a burden to me. Happiness is never a burden to me, whilst as sorrow is.

Love was an emotional choice one was not allowed to decide or determine.

Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.