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Effect Quotes by Thomas Merton
- To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect on me is to live on the doorstep of hell. Selfishness…
- It is by desiring to grow in love that we receive the Holy Spirit, and the thirst for more charity is the effect of this…
- What does it mean to know and experience my own “nothingness?†It is not enough to turn away in disgust from my illusions and faults…
- The gift of love is the gift of the power and capacity to love, and therefore, to give love with full effect is also to…
- To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.
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- The great uncertainty of all data in war is because all action, to a certain extent, planned in a mere twilight -… — Carl von Clausewitz
- He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the… — Samuel Johnson
- The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by… — Charles Babbage
- The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they give one… — John Banville
- Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. — John Quincy Adams
- I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercise, and one of the best things which I… — Henry David Thoreau
- Coral reefs, the rain forest of the ocean, are home for one-third of the species of the sea. Coral reefs are under… — James Hansen
- ... the friendship of worthless people has a bad effect (because they take part, unstable as they are, in worthless pursuits, and… — Aristotle