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How to use the word deserved in a Sentence? Page #7

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Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplacable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

– Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

– Longfellow

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To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

– Samuel Johnson

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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

– Walt Whitman

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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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If you can't ignore an insult, top it if you can't top it, laugh it off and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.

– J. Russel Lynes

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Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.

– William Hazlitt

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