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• Let the boy win his spurs.

  Edward III of England

  War, Winning, Boys

  "Chroniques". Book by Jean Froissart, trans. Geoffrey Brereton, 1968, Book 1, p. 92, 1369 - 1400.

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• I have worked out with the Thunder, Lakers, Knicks, Grizzlies, Spurs, and a few others before the draft. I have worked out primarily against shorter and supposedly faster players in these workouts.

  Jeremy Lin

  Workout, Player, Lakers

  Interview with Eric Guilleminault, www.nbadraft.net. June 16, 2010.

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• Violent fires soon burn out themselves, small showers last long, but sudden storms are short; he tires betimes that spurs too fast.

  William Shakespeare

  Fire, Long, Storm

  'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 1, l. 31

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• Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days.

  John Milton

  Mind, Noble, Delight

  "Lycidas" l. 70 (1638). A 1619 play thought to be written by John Fletcher, Sir John van Olden Barnavelt act 1, sc. 1, refers to "the desire of glory (That last infirmity of noble minds)." That play was lost and not rediscovered until 1883, so Milton's parallel words were coincidental.

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• We don't have a choice in how or when our bad days will blindside us. But what we do choose is how we allow them to leave us once they're gone. You can use those moments as a catalyst to spur you on to greater things or you can let it be the event that breaks you and leaves you shattered and forever lost in darkness.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Bad Day, Choices, Forever

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• Avarice, the spur of industry.

  David Hume

  Industry, Avarice

  'Essays' (1741-2) 'Of Civil Liberty'

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• I'm very 'spur of the moment'. I'm always trying to think of fun things to do to create a memory.

  Josh Hartnett

  Fun, Memories, Thinking

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• Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Love, Life, Relationship

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Firsts, Worship, Pursuit

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• The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect.

  James Payn

  Respect, Mean, Men

  James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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• I'm riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don't forget that I'm riding with curb and spurs just the same.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Pet, Riding, Forget

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone With The Wind: American Literature”, p.828, 谷月社

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• The fear thou art in, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "prevents thee from seeing or hearing correctly, for one of the effects of fear is to derange the senses and make things appear different from what they are; if thou art in such fear, withdraw to one side and leave me to myself, for alone I suffice to bring victory to that side to which I shall give my aid;" and so saying he gave Rocinante the spur, and putting the lance in rest, shot down the slope like a thunderbolt.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Art, Giving, Victory

  Miguel de Cervantes (2015). “Don Quixote (StoneHenge Classics): The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.107, StoneHenge Classics

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• And there you are on the shore, fitful and thoughtful, trying to attach them to an idea — some news of your own life. But the lilies are slippery and wild—they are devoid of meaning, they are simply doing, from the deepest spurs of their being, what they are impelled to do every summer. And so, dear sorrow, are you.

  Mary Oliver

  Summer, Thoughtful, Ideas

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• My point is that love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest, bravest acts are done for love.

  Rick Riordan

  Powerful, Greatness, Love Is

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• if you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come laughing

  Khalil Gibran

  Prayer, Laughing, Soul

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• It's just because I love the past that I want this house to look back on its glamourous moment of youth and beauty, and I want its stairs to creak as if to the footsteps of women with hoop skirts and men in boots and spurs. But they've made it into a blondined, rouged-up old woman of sixty.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Past, Men, House

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.657, e-artnow

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• In every age there are plenty of people around to remind you what you cannot possibly do. Thank goodness, for these naysayers provide a priceless service: They spur...us to achieve great things.

  Jerry Spinelli

  People, Age, Naysayers

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• Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity.

  C. S. Lewis

  Choices, Joy, Ransom

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• It's not that kind of love. It's the real kind. The unconditional kind. The nonjudgemental kind. Not the physical kind. I love you as a fellow soul who inhabits this earth. I love you as a fellow immortal. I love you because I finally understand what made you the way you are. And if I could change it, I would. But I can't—so I choose to love you instead. And my hope is that my acceptance of you will spur you to do something good too, but if not—" I shrug. "At least I can say I tried.

  Alyson Noel

  Real, Love You, Acceptance

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• The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

  Marquis de Sade

  Mean, Imagination, Joy

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• Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Failure, Hints

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.267, Penguin

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• I'm sure Spurs will get another opportunity, hopefully before the final whistle.

  Steve Claridge

  Football, Opportunity, Finals

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• The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good thing. As long as that rivalry remains within the spirit of competition, it con only spur everyone on.

  Eric Cantona

  Team, Thinking, Long

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• Hunger's a great spur.

  Robert Carlyle

  Hunger

  "To be and to pretend". Interview with Alastair McKay, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2005.

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• What spurs a person to get more serious is highly individual, but I have found that no matter what a person's level of ability, motivation must come from within, or it will not last.

  Grete Waitz

  Inspirational, Motivation, Matter

  Grete Waitz, Gloria Averbuch (2000). “On The Run: Exercise and Fitness for Busy People”, Rodale Books

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