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Who works for glory misses oft the goal; Who works for money coins his very soul Work for the work's sake, then, and it may be, That this thing shall be added unto thee.

Kenyon Cox (1905). “Sculptors of the early Italian renaissance. Perugino. Michelangelo. The pictures of Venice. Veronese. Dürer. Rubens. Frans Hals. Rembrandt. William Blake”

The lion and the lamb may, possibly, sumtime lay down in this world together for a fu minnits, but when the lion kums tew git up, the lamb will be missing.

Josh Billings (1874). “Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor”, p.227

Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.

Jon Kabat-Zinn (2013). “Full Catastrophe Living (Revised Edition): Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness”, p.74, Bantam

I don't miss London much. I find it crowded, vast and difficult to get around. Cabs are incredibly expensive.

"Ross and Brand were astoundingly tasteless". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2008.

The quicker, the louder, the applause with which another tries to gain you over to his purpose - the bitterer his censure if he miss his aim.

"Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?

Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.152, Simon and Schuster