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| I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
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| Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
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| If a man cannot be a Christian in the place he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
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| Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
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| We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
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| The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
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| Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm which is the real and endless home of the heart. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
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| What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
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| It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
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| Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
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| The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
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| You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by the right door. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
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| Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore |
Henry Ward Beecher |
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| Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
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| The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a but. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
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| Avarice, envy, pride,Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of allOn Fire. |
Dante Alighieri |
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| Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye.Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine,Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure.All hope abandon, ye who enter here. |
Dante Alighieri |
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| For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act |
Dante Alighieri |
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| There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault. |
Dante Alighieri |
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| All hope abandon, ye who enter here |
Dante Alighieri |
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| A great flame follows a little spark. |
Dante Alighieri |
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| A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence. |
Dante Alighieri |
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| The experience of this sweet life. L'esperienza de questa dolce vita. |
Dante Alighieri |
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| He listens well who takes notes. |
Dante Alighieri |
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| There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery. |
Dante Alighieri |
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| Consider your origin you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. |
Dante Alighieri |
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| If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought. |
Dante Alighieri |
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| In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. |
Dante Alighieri |
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| O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall. |
Dante Alighieri |
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| In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief. |
John Barrymore |
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| Happiness sneaks through a door you didn't know that you left open. |
John Barrymore |
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| America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks. |
John Barrymore |
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| Die I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. |
John Barrymore |
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| Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock. |
John Barrymore |
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| The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. |
Jean Giraudoux |
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| A golf course is the epitome of all that is transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible. |
Jean Giraudoux |
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| Only the mediocre are always at their best. |
Jean Giraudoux |
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| The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. |
Jean Giraudoux |
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| A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B. |
Fats Domino |
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| Cyberspace A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation. |
William Gibson |
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| The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it. |
William Gibson |
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| The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. |
William Gibson |
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| The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. |
Theodore Rubin |
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| As soon as we started programming, we found out to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs. |
Maurice Wilkes |
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| In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is. |
Geoffrey Cottrell |
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| The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail. |
Napoleon Hill |
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| Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. |
Napoleon Hill |
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| Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. |
Cynthia Nelms |
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| Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. |
H. Jackson Brown Jr. |
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| Find a job you like and you add five days to every week. |
H. Jackson Brown Jr. |
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| People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. |
H. Jackson Brown Jr. |
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| Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. |
H. Jackson Brown Jr. |
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| When you hear a kind word spoken about a friend, tell him so. |
H. Jackson Brown Jr. |
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| Believe in miracles but don't depend on them. |
H. Jackson Brown Jr. |
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| Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, They think of you. |
H. Jackson Brown Jr. |
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| Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. |
H. Jackson Brown Jr. |
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| If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. |
Emily Dickinson |
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| Because I could not stop for Death -- He kindly stopped for me -- The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd immortality. |
Emily Dickinson |
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| Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat. |
Emily Dickinson |
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| We turn not older with years, but newer every day. |
Emily Dickinson |
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| My friends are my estate. |
Emily Dickinson |
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| I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. |
Emily Dickinson |
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| They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse. |
Emily Dickinson |
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| Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul. And sings the tune Without the words, and never stops at all. |
Emily Dickinson |
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| I dwell in possibility... |
Emily Dickinson |
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| There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes-- |
Emily Dickinson |
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| Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed. |
Emily Dickinson |
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| A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King. |
Emily Dickinson |
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| Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| All that spirits desire, spirits attain. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Time has been transformed, and we have changed it has advanced and set us in motion it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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