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Spirituality is not a question of morality, it is a question of vision. Spirituality is not the practising of virtues - because if you practise… — Rajneesh
Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead! Laurels and roses on their graves to-day, lilies and laurels over them we lay, and violets… — Richard Hovey
They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It… — G I Gurdjieff
Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living. — Harold MacMillan
As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead. — Allan Bloom
"Dreamers and dreaming dead, lots of them from neither here nor there with no chance of getting home again, lost in place and time... — Janet Morris
Weep for me, whoever has charity, truth and justice! I did not come on this voyage for gain, honor or wealth, that is certain; for… — Christopher Columbus
If the Lord should give you power to raise the dead, He would give much less than He does when he bestows suffering. By miracles… — Saint John Chrysostom
When I am dead, let it be said of me: he belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, and… — Gustave Courbet
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really… — Seneca the Younger
O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the… — Mark Twain
One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed. — Dustin Hoffman
A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough. — Adrienne Rich
The woman is perfected. Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment. — Sylvia Plath
We the living, should not think of the dead as lonely because if they could speak to us, they would say: "Do not weep for… — Helen Keller
A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The Christian faith, simply stated, reminds us that our fundamental problem is not moral; rather, our fundamental problem is spiritual. It is not just that… — Ravi Zacharias
What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to… — Lawrence Clark Powell
Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past. — William Faulkner
Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead — Charles Dickens
Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine. — George D. Prentice
If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside… — Jean Cocteau
Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you're on a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. Of course, there are other strategies. You can… — Gary Hamel

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