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“The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run.” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
“There is a greater purpose to all this. It is your destiny.” Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One
“We can generally read a man's purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us.” Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux
“But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.” William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
“In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one's mind incapable of definite purpose. ” Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
“Writing isn’t about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it’s about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well.” Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“When your life is on course with its purpose, you are at your most powerful. And though you may stumble, you will not fall.” Oprah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure
“The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.” Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
“if nobody spoke unless he had something to say . . . the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.” W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
“All art is quite useless.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purposes.” Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of my Experiments with Truth
“There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.” Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
“All the elegancies and outward charms of life were delightful, if only they could be used as the means to some end. As an end themselves they were nothing.” Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux
“It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.” Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades
“For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?” Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.” Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
“Autobiographies are, after all, useful only as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.” Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

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