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- Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for…
- Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
- Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
- Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
- A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
- Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined…
- Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
- We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes…
- The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
- God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
- Love is the river of life in the world.
- Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
- Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
- Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
- Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are…
- It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that…
- Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
- Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which…
- His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled…
- Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows…
- In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
- Business men are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence. ... No man…
- Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.
- Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that…
- October is nature's funeral month. Nature glories in death more than in life. The month of departure is more beautiful than the month of coming…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle