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Every trial a man goes through, if he is faithful in that trial and does honor to God and his religion he has espoused, at…
— Lorenzo Snow
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There are some who do not learn, and who do not improve as fast as they might, because their eyes and their hearts are not…
— Lorenzo Snow
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It is our duty to try to be perfect, … to improve each day, and look upon our course last week and do things better…
— Lorenzo Snow
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I never feel to force my doctrine upon any person; I rejoice to see prejudice give way to truth, and the traditions of men dispersed…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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Consciousness is a pitiful hostage of its flesh-envelope, whose surges, circuits, and secret murmurings it cannot stay or speed. This is the chthonian drama that…
— Camille Paglia
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Many individual growers now are growing organic fruit, and many are taking it upon themselves to market their own products to the public, as opposed…
— Greg Walden
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I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and…
— Joseph Pulitzer
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I ground my faith upon God's word, and not upon the church.
— Lady Jane Grey
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We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see them. Somebody likes…
— Michael Bay
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Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word. Should one of you…
— Fran Lebowitz
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The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function of the artist…
— Henri Matisse
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The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys…
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply upon which they…
— Andrew Solomon
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God is pleased continually to vary His mode of dealing with us, in order that we may not be tempted to trust in donors, or…
— George Muller
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Sin does not leap upon us fully armed. It steals in through a look, a swift, silent suggestion or imagination, but love and loyalty to…
— Samuel Logan Brengle
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What am I doing? Nothing. I am letting life rain upon me.
— Rahel Varnhagen
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was…
— Joseph Addison
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A true music, that is to say, spiritual, a music which may be an act of faith; a music which may touch upon all subjects…
— Olivier Messiaen
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Children are notoriously curious about everything, everything except... the things people want them to know. It then remains for us to refrain from forcing any…
— Floyd Dell
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As to those in whom the will of God is not inwardly accomplished,-because there is no inward life in them, for they are altogether outward,-upon…
— Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do…
— Salvador Dali
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Things. Cosas. Things attach themselves like leeches to the human soul, then they bleed out the sweetness and the music and the primordial joy of…
— Tom Robbins
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Literally minutes before the Senate cast its vote, the administration sought to add the words 'in the United States and' after 'appropriate force' in the…
— Tom Daschle
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Plutarch has written an essay on the benefits which a man may receive from his enemies; and among the good fruits of enmity, mentions this…
— Joseph Addison
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The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite…
— Grover Cleveland
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