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Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no longer atoms but stars; these… — Henri Poincare
I have carefully examined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity I would unhesitatingly give… — Alexander Hamilton
Government should uphold-and not undermine-those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded: religion, education and, above all, family. — Ronald Reagan
The Gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rules for just conduct in every situation of life. Happy they who are enabled to obey them… — Benjamin Rush
What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it. — Thomas More
The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place. — Therese of Lisieux
Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer more than I ever did before. The other night, on TV, I saw people… — Morrie Schwartz
Your corn is ripe today, mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both that I should labor with you today, and that you… — David Hume
When we cast our bread upon the waters we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action,… — Maya Angelou
Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's… — Lucretius
Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the… — Thomas Traherne
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly… — Mark Twain
There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must… — Frank Herbert
We should not only master questions, but also act upon them, and act definitely. — Woodrow Wilson
The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself… — Susan Sontag
The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a scaffold of heavy… — Virginia Woolf
Faith-not a faith in one's self or in one's own powers but faith in principle; in the Something Great which upholds right, and which may… — Wallace D. Wattles
I was wholly at peace, at ease and at rest, so that there was nothing upon earth which could have afflicted me. This lasted for… — Julian of Norwich

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