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Henry Jackson Vandyke, Jr: Man is the...

Henry Jackson Vandyke, Jr: Man is the...

Man is the only creature that dares to light a fire and live with it. The reason? Because he alone has learned how to...

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Billy Graham: The test of...

Billy Graham: The test of...

The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, 'What a lovely sermon!' but 'I will do...

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Robert Penn Warren: I've been to...

Robert Penn Warren: I've been to...

I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do...

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Truman Capote: To me, the...

Truman Capote: To me, the...

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words...

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Ivan Turgenev: However much you...

Ivan Turgenev: However much you...

However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible...

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Antonio Porchia: If you do...

Antonio Porchia: If you do...

If you do not raise your eyes, you will think you are at the highest point.

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Antonio Porchia: He who goes...

Antonio Porchia: He who goes...

He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.

Source: In...

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Richard C Trench: Language is the...

Richard C Trench: Language is the...

Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and...

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Richard C Trench: [Language] has arrested...

Richard C Trench: [Language] has arrested...

[Language] has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might have...

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C S Lewis: The long dull...

C S Lewis: The long dull...

The long dull monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather...

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Joseph Hall: It is of...

Joseph Hall: It is of...

It is of no small commendation to manage a little well. To live well in abundance is the praise of the estate, not of...

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Joseph Hall: I first adventure,...

Joseph Hall: I first adventure,...

I first adventure, follow me who list
And be the second English satirist.


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Theodore M Hesburgh: All of us...

Theodore M Hesburgh: All of us...

All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.

Source: F
-- Theodore...

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Maria Montessori: The task of...

Maria Montessori: The task of...

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with...

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Howard Thurman: He who fears...

Howard Thurman: He who fears...

He who fears is literally delivered to destruction.

Source: In Famous Black...

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William Pickens: . . ....

William Pickens: . . ....

. . . every age thinks it is perfect, especially in religion.

Source: In Webster's...

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Thomas Carlyle: Give me a...

Thomas Carlyle: Give me a...

Give me a man who sings at his work.

Source: In My Favorite Quotations, by Norman...

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Henry David Thoreau: Absolutely speaking, Do...

Henry David Thoreau: Absolutely speaking, Do...

Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the...

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Henry David Thoreau: What a man...

Henry David Thoreau: What a man...

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines or rather indicates his fate.

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Henry David Thoreau: Man's capacities have...

Henry David Thoreau: Man's capacities have...

Man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedent, so little has been...

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