Fashion was the only law, pleasure the only pursuit, and the splendour of dress and furniture was the only distinction of the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
God has revealed to me that only the Paramatman, whom the Vedas describe as the Pure Soul, is as immutable as Mount… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Children, as well as grown-ups, in their individual, glorified, drudgery-proof homes of Labrador, the tropics, the Orient, or where you will, to… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
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Do you, like a skilful weigher, put into the balance the pleasures and the pains, near and distant, and weigh them, and… — Plato Copy Share Image
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It shall be my pleasure to remedy it. First, it is not your strength or your speed that draws me. It's your...everything.… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
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