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George Meredith: A human act...

George Meredith: A human act...

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what...

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John Sterling: The worst education...

John Sterling: The worst education...

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not...

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Boris Pasternak: As far as...

Boris Pasternak: As far as...

As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. . . ....

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Boris Pasternak: Art always serves...

Boris Pasternak: Art always serves...

Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no...

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Joyce Carol Oates: Where we come...

Joyce Carol Oates: Where we come...

Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: That indescribable expression...

Helen Hunt Jackson: That indescribable expression...

That indescribable expression peculiar to people who hope they have not been asleep, but know they...

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Gloria Naylor: It ain't really...

Gloria Naylor: It ain't really...

It ain't really what you'd call change. It's all happened before and it'll happen again with a different set of...

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Gloria Naylor: His entire life...

Gloria Naylor: His entire life...

His entire life was becoming a race against the natural -- and he was winning.

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Edward Hoagland: Men greet each...

Edward Hoagland: Men greet each...

Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long...

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Olive Schreiner: We all enter...

Olive Schreiner: We all enter...

We all enter the world little plastic beings, with so much natural force, perhaps, but for the rest --blank; and the...

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Sir Walter Besant: Tolerance is the...

Sir Walter Besant: Tolerance is the...

Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.

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Sholem Asch: Heritage is Scriptures...

Sholem Asch: Heritage is Scriptures...

Heritage is Scriptures . . . which have become absorbed into our blood.

Source:...

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George MacDonald: No man ever...

George MacDonald: No man ever...

No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the...

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Joyce Cary: It is the...

Joyce Cary: It is the...

It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is...

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Judith Guest: To have a...

Judith Guest: To have a...

To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to possess a guiding principle. A belief of some kind. A...

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Johanna Spyri: Then at last...

Johanna Spyri: Then at last...

Then at last the grandmother spoke, Heidi, read me one of the hymns! I can feel I can do nothing for the remainder of...

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Emmuska Orczy: To love, for...

Emmuska Orczy: To love, for...

To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we do, suffers...

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Barbara Kingsolver: It's surprising how...

Barbara Kingsolver: It's surprising how...

It's surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

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Nella Larsen: Why couldn't she...

Nella Larsen: Why couldn't she...

Why couldn't she have two lives, or why couldn't she be satisfied in one place?

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Norman Douglas: They who are...

Norman Douglas: They who are...

They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.

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