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It is grace at the beginning, and grace at the end. So that when you and I come to lie upon our death beds, the… — David Lloyd-Jones
All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence...Silence is the general consecration of the Universe. Silence is the invisible laying… — Herman Melville
I told that girl, in the kindest, gentlest way, that I could not consent to deliver judgment upon any one's manuscript, because an individual's verdict… — Mark Twain
The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect its… — John Jay Chapman
I have one great political idea. . . . That idea is an old one. It is widely and generally assented to; nevertheless, it is… — Frederick Douglass
It is happily and kindly provided that in every life there are certain pauses, and interruptions, which force consideration upon the careless, and seriousness upon… — Lyndon B. Johnson
All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have… — John Berger
The best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper limitation of the purely partisan… — Grover Cleveland
No mariner ever enters upon a more uncharted sea than does the average human being born in the 20th century. Our ancestors know their way… — Walter Lippmann
The hand that holds the seven stars is as loving as the hand that was laid in blessing upon the little children; the face that… — Alexander MacLaren
Doth not all nature around me praise God? If I were silent, I should be an exception to the universe. Doth not the thunder praise… — Charles Spurgeon
I would do it [study UFOs], but before agreeing to do it, we must insist upon full access to discs recovered. For instance in the… — J. Edgar Hoover
Give my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of… — Walter Raleigh
As the innocent infant relies upon the mother for sustenance, so the innocent wanderer, following his native compassion and bliss, relies upon the natural intelligence… — Miyamoto Musashi
Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation. . . . Let… — Bernard Baruch
The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run… — Benjamin Cardozo
Capitalism is essentially a system of mass production for the satisfaction of the needs of the masses. It pours a horn of plenty upon the… — Ludwig von Mises
A short time ago the demagogues blamed capitalism for the poverty of the masses. Today they rather blame capitalism for the "affluence" that it bestows… — Ludwig von Mises
Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless. As a consequence, masses… — Pope Francis
Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing to be numbered… — Plutarch

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