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Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of… — Thomas Merton
Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications. — Raymond Carver
Helped are those who forgive; their reward shall be forgetfulness of every evil done to them. It will be in their power, therefore, to envision… — Alice Walker
Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve ...… — William Shakespeare
But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth. — Mahatma Gandhi
If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. — Soren Kierkegaard
The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really… — Khalil Gibran
In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of us as Externals,… — John Irving
I always thought the name of Utah’s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word “desert.” But no, Deseret is the “land… — A. J. Jacobs
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world lies in the hands of those that have the courage to dream and who take the risk of living out their dreams -… — Paulo Coelho
We do not need to operate according to the idea of a predetermined program for our lives. — John O'Donohue
Alas," said Aslan, shaking his head. "It will. Things always work according to their nature. She has won her heart's desire; she has unwearying strength… — C.S. Lewis
We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in. — Thomas Hardy
Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But… — Mahatma Gandhi
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs. — Albert Einstein
According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
And my haunting instinct that somehow good was not merely a tool to be used, but a relic to be guarded, like the goods from… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,' and I believe… — Jorge Luis Borges
I am simultaneously and contradictorily both happy and unhappy: 'to succeed' or 'to fail' have for me only ephemeral, contingent meanings (this does not stop… — Roland Barthes
The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false assertion… — Francis Bacon
Especially among Christians in positions of wealth and power, the idea of reading the Gospels and keeping Jesus' commandments as stated therein has been replaced… — Wendell Berry
Elodin proved a difficult man to find. He had an office in Hollows, but never seemed to use it. When I visited Ledgers and Lists,… — Patrick Rothfuss
I was remembering the things we had done together, the times we had had. It would have been pleasant to preserve that comradeship in the… — John Christopher
During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me. Remarkably, according to what… — Alan Alda

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