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"Nothing discernable to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidible, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul." »Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
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"Having everything in life is having nothing! But being alive is having the dream of everything and the prospect of nothing. . " »Stuart Mitchell
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"The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good." »John Locke
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"What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stagecoaches?" »The Quarterly Review (England), March 1825
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"Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect." »Hunter S. Thompson
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"The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'." »Phillip Lopate
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"I know [patriotism] exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward." »George Washington
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"The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?" »Brendan Francis
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"The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream" »Brendan Francis
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"Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you." »Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973
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