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Love can transmute all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys.
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Happiness is the soul's joy in the possession of the intangible.
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We know nothing of the trials, sorrows and temptations of those around us, of pillows wet with sobs, of the life-tragedy that…
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He who thinks all mankind is vile is a pessimist who mistakes his introspection for observation; he looks into his own heart…
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Everything that is great in life is the product of slow growth; the newer, and greater, and higher, and nobler the work,…
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The man who has a certain religious belief and fears to discuss it, lest it may be proved wrong, is not loyal…
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If there is a little sand in the sugar of home happiness, it really seems better to concentrate on the sweetness that…
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Life is a state of constant radiation and absorption; to exist is to radiate; to exist is to be the recipient of…
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Life is not a competition with others. In its truest sense it is a rivalry with ourselves. We should each day seek…
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Man does not drift into goodness...the chance port of an aimless voyage. He must fight ever for his destination.
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Life is not something to be lived through: it is something to be lived up to. It is a privilege, not a…
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Education, in its highest sense, is conscious training of mind or body to act unconsciously. It is conscious formation of mental habits,…
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The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playing…
— Aldo Leopold
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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
— Lawrence Durrell
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Why, when the economist gives advice to his society, is he so often cooly ignored? He never ceases to preach free trade,…
— George Stigler
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The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heaven And…
— Sappho
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Fixing our thoughts on Jesus requires time, for true reflection cannot happen with a glance. No one can see the beauty of…
— R. Kent Hughes
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There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand. I am practically industrious - painstaking, a workman to…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Time hurries by, we're here and gone.
— Howard Dietz
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Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened.
— Winston Churchill
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Our lives ... are but a little while, so let them run as sweetly as you can, and give no thought to…
— Euripides
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Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.
— Horace
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The end of nature sours all my material pleasures. The prospect of living in a genetically engineered world sickens me. And yet…
— Bill McKibben
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Nature is very un-American. Nature never hurries.
— William George Jordan
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