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The Prize
«Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.»
Author: Amanda Cross
(Critic, Writer)
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love affair, publication, publications, sufficed, The Prize
«All honor to him who shall win the prize,'The world has cried for a thousand years;But to him who tries and fails and dies,I give great honor and glory and tears.»
«Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.»
«In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.»
«For life, with all its yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear, - believe the aged friend - Is just a chance o' the prize of learning love»
«All religions exhort man to cleanse the heart of malice, greed, hate and anger. All religions hold out the gift of Grace as the prize for success in this cleaning process.»
«He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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Opportunity
| Keywords:
embrace, failed, loses, prize, prizing, refuses, surely, The Prize, unique