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Willa Cather has 139 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
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The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
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I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
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The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows…
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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
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Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
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Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends…
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There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened…
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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
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The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly…
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Art and religion -they are the same thing, in the end, of course- have given man the only happiness he has ever…
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God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.
— Helen Keller
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To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know
— Alexis Carrel
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The U.S. is the greatest, best country God has ever given man on the face of the earth.
— Sean Hannity
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As to the origin of civil Societies or Governments; the Author of our Being, has given Man a Nature to be fitted…
— Abraham J. Williams
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If God wanted man to become a spacefaring species, he would have given man a moon.
— Krafft Arnold Ehricke
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ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard…
— William Faulkner
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I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many…
— Oscar Wilde
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Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions,…
— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
— Pliny the Elder
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Nature has given man one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak
— Epictetus
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