"For in prosperity a man is often puffed……" — Alfred the Great

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• The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt… — Joseph Addison
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• The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• [Albert] Schweitzer thus carved out his own path through the first half of this century, a lonely and learned giant… — N. T. Wright
• To experience peace does not mean that your life is always blissful. It means that you are capable of tapping… — Jill Bolte Taylor
• We have been living amidst one of the great revolutions of human history, and we hardly know it: the penetration… — Joseph Sobran
• Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals… — Charles Lyell
• Life, this anti-entropy, ceaselessly reloaded with energy, is a climbing force, toward order amidst chaos, toward light, among the darkness… — Albert Claude
• Meditation should not be a thing apart from life; it should be amidst life, it should be a part of… — Rajneesh
• Remember, Angels are both God's messengers and God's message, witness to eternity in time, to the presence of the divine… — Forrest Church
• It is well for us that, amidst all the variableness of life, there is One whom change cannot affect; One… — Charles Spurgeon

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