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Donald had reached its further edge, and could hear the rush of the stream from the deep obscurity of the abyss below,… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
Love gives us copious potions of delight, Of pain and ecstasy, and peace and care; Love leads us upward, to the mountain… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
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War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Is it conceivable that a newly emancipated people can soar to the heights of liberty, and, unlike Icarus, neither have its wings… — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
Within this arena, which grows more stable night after day, generations work and love and hope and vanish. New generations tread on… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph. I don't know what she was, anything that no… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We are a great capitalist society, that works most of the time. We do need to take better care of our people… — James A. Champy Copy Share Image
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The secret to success, to parenting, to life, is to not count up the cost. Don't focus on all the steps it… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
It is not human nature which can assign the variable limits necessary to our needs. They are thus unlimited so far as… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
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Jesus.. says, 'Let go of your complaints, forgive those who loved you poorly, step over your feelings of being rejected, and have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I watched our friends' wary, intelligent faces droop at our tale. Their shock was a mere shadow of our own, resembling more… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Safety lies in tending towards our highest and not in resting content with an inferior potentiality… To rest in or follow after… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“[…] as if the next thing must quickly come along to occupy her, or the abyss might open. What abyss? The abyss… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
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Even when our life is most difficult, it is important to remember that something within us is keeping us alive- the life… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
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