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• As I express my gratitude, I become more deeply aware of it. And the greater my awareness, the greater my need to… — David Steindl-Rast
• The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but… — Thomas Adams
• At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
• I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions… — Mark Twain
• There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars… — Francis Bacon
• Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery. — Mahatma Gandhi

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