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In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.
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Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness…
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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to…
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One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to…
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In men this blunder still you find; all think their little set mankind.
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In grief we know the worst of what we feel but who can tell the end of what we fear?
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Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill…
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There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever…
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Man can see his reflection in water only when he bends down close to it, and the heart of man, too, must…
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Oh! the joy Of young ideas painted on the mind, In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads On objects not yet known,…
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How much it is to be regretted, that the British ladies should ever sit down contented to polish, when they are able…
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Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.
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We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and…
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The most successful people on the planet have failed more than ordinary ones.
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You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only…
— Cab Calloway
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The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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A bag of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans. "You want to be careful with those," Ron warned Harry. "When they say every…
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Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.
— Cab Calloway
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Things are happening. You feel hunger, you feel love, you feel anger -- everything happens to you, you are not a doer.…
— Osho
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