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In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.
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Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness…
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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to…
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One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to…
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In men this blunder still you find; all think their little set mankind.
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In grief we know the worst of what we feel but who can tell the end of what we fear?
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Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill…
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There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever…
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Man can see his reflection in water only when he bends down close to it, and the heart of man, too, must…
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Oh! the joy Of young ideas painted on the mind, In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads On objects not yet known,…
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How much it is to be regretted, that the British ladies should ever sit down contented to polish, when they are able…
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Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.
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When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on.
— George Sewell
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A critical, independent and investigative press is the lifeblood of any democracy. The press must be free from state interference. It must…
— Nelson Mandela
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After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to…
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As I look back, I feel a touch of pride at my younger self's dedication to literature, which gave him the strength…
— Salman Rushdie
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I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million. Try it, ye who think there…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Imagine how a Teddy Kennedy or a Bill Clinton would take the news that one woman in ten, say, has the power…
— L. Neil Smith
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Our society offers little in the way of reeducation for those who have been torn away from their traditional culture and suddenly…
— David Riesman
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Day and night my thoughts incline To the blandishments of wine, Jars were made to drain, I think; Wine, I know, was…
— Richard Henry Stoddard
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We can transform reality to the extent that we influence what happens in consciousness and thus free ourselves from the threats and…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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