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There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of…
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People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.
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Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know.…
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Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's…
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I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for…
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There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk,…
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She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.
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A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of…
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All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to…
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The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe that God actually did watch…
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Of course I loved books more than people.
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When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure…
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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Thus is Jesus in all respects fitted for his mighty work of redeeming. He is very man and very God. He is…
— Horatius Bonar
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Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well…
— Hippocrates
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Our comforts come from God; our sorrows, from ourselves.
— Ivan Panin
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Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.
— Gautama Buddha
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I can’t believe we will forget our sorrows altogether. That would mean forgetting that we had lived, humanly speaking. Sorrow seems to…
— Marilynne Robinson
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We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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The Saviors atonement in the garden and on the cross is intimate as well as infinite. Infinite in that it spans the…
— Merrill J. Bateman
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Gentle time will heal our sorrows.
— Sophocles
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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well…
— Hippocrates
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God has so ordered, that in pressing on in duty we shall find the truest, richest comfort for ourselves. Sitting down to…
— Lettie Cowman
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