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I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the…
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To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's…
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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever…
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
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She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on…
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Have you ever heard the earth breath?
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The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft,…
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The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended, protecting wings…
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She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her…
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The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths…
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So the storm passed and every one was happy.
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A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled, down, down to the water
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It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our…
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Gird up your loins for the task that now lies ahead. I had asked you for men, money and materials. I have…
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When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.
— Alexis Carrel
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To obtain the pure silence necessary for the disciple, the heart and emotions, the brain and its intellectualisms, have to be put…
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The motive power of democracy is love
— Henri Bergson
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Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring.
— Berenice Abbott
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Man's responsibility, then, is to choose his destination; the motive power to bring him there is furnished by the Infinite.
— Neville Goddard
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Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it…
— Kate Chopin
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The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught…
— Swami Vivekananda
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The wind, as a direct motive power, is wholly inapplicable to a system of machine labour, for during a calm season the…
— William Stanley Jevons
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The motive power is the cause of all life.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
— St. Jerome
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