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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard…
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or…
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has…
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol…
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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Envy is one of the great enemies of active spirituality. It keeps us from loving our neighbours, from functioning with others in…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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It seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness.
— Katherine Paterson
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I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that…
— Augustus William Hare
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Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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One of the great enemies of design is when systems or objects become more complex than a person - or even a…
— Bran Ferren
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Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is…
— William Osler
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An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty…
— Mary Elizabeth Lease
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Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge and he who encourages them, who those not slay them, thwarts himself at…
— James Allen
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Nostalgia is one of the great enemies of clear thinking about the family. The disruption of families in the nineteenth century through…
— Unknown Author
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