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Shmuel Yosef Agnon has 17 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.
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Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing.
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After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.
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I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my…
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Sometimes small things lead to great joys.
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As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I…
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The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I…
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I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a…
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At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by…
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Through a historical catastrophe - the destruction of Jerusalem by the emperor of Rome - I was born in one of the…
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But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem.
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For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes.
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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable.
— Julie Burchill
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My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.
— Isabel Allende
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Poets and songwriters speak highly of spring as one of the great joys of life in the temperate zone, but in the…
— Barbara Holland
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Great joys make us love the world. Great sadnesses make us understand the world.
— Kent Nerburn
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Sometimes small things lead to great joys.
— Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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Great joys, like griefs, are silent.
— Unknown Author
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One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting…
— Peter McWilliams
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I am only serious about 20% of the time; one of the great joys of my life is the fact that I…
— Mark Richards
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Preparing food is one of life's great joys, but a lot of times, parents ask their kids if they want to cook…
— Guy Fieri
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One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature.
— Stephen Daldry
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One of the great joys this year and the year before has been how all of the people in this body, men…
— Robin Hayes
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