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• Two kinds of gratitude; the sudden kind We feel for what we take, the larger kind We feel for what we give.
  -- Edwin Arlington Robinso...
• What ardently we wish we soon believe. -- Young
• Rust never sleeps. -- Neil Young
• We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, but others judge us by what we have already done.
  -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...
• We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.
• What other people do we always feel we could do better.
  Unfortunately we do not have the same feeling about what we ourselves do. -- E.M. Ciora...
• Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
  -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...
• We are what we are.