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Sheldon Vanauken has 18 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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...So Englishmen saw it. Lincoln's insincerity was regarded as proven by two things: his earlier denial of any lawful right or wish…
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A man in the jungle at night, as someone said, may suppose a hyena's growl to be a lion's; but when he…
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Both Heaven and Hell are retroactive, all of one's life will eventually be known to have been one or the other.
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Signs must be read with caution. The history of Christendom is replete with instances of people who misread the signs.
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But Love is the final reality; and anyone who does not understand this, be he writer or sage, is a man flawed…
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God gives us many gifts, but never permanence; that we must seek in his arms.
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Not only are we harried by time, we seem unable, despite a thousand generations, even to get used to it. We are…
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Art is first a seeing and then a revealing
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It is not possible to be incidentally a Christian. The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing.
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Religiously, we longed for the lively life in Christ, but we did not fully see that we were equally longing for the…
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But I was not obeying the first and greatest commandment - to love God first - nor is it clear that I…
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It is not possible to be 'incidentally a Christian.' The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing. This suggests a…
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
— Lord Byron
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Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes…
— Thomas Carlyle
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You can't learn anything from saguaro cactus, from ocotillo. They are just passing through; their roots, their much heralded dormancy in the…
— Barry Lopez
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We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn…
— Zhuangzi
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Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
— George Santayana
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Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.
— Jacob Burckhardt
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It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
— George William Curtis
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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may…
— Orison Swett Marden
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Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.
— Nicholas Murray Butler
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The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth.
— Maria Montessori
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