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Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble. — George Santayana
It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting… — Charles Darwin
Nature, machine-like, works definitely and heartlessly, if in the main beautifully. Hence, if we, as individuals, do not make this dream of a god or… — Theodore Dreiser
We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future. — Michel de Montaigne
Pessimism does win us great happy moments. — Max Beerbohm
We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts… — Robert Louis Stevenson
You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams. — George Santayana
The right to criticize: the right to hold unpopular beliefs; the right to protest; the right of independent thought. The exercise of these rights should… — Margaret Chase Smith
It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the beings that share… — Joseph Conrad
We should pray to the angels, for they are given to us as guardians. — Ambrose
All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new… — Carson McCullers
I heard of somebody once who said he was interested in doing the greatest amount of good for the greatest number, and that the greatest… — Sterling W Sill
"Americans do not presume to equate God's purposes with any purpose of our own...."[Prayer] teaches us to trust, to accept that God's plan unfolds in… — George W. Bush
May He guide us now. And may God continue to bless the United States of America. — George W. Bush
And we're also remembering the guiding light of our Judeo-Christian tradition. All of us here today are descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, sons and… — Ronald Reagan
And one more idea which may be laughed and sneered at in some supposedly sophisticated circles, but I just have to believe that the loving… — Ronald Reagan
There is a time when the word "eventually" has the soothing effect of a promise, and a time when the word evokes in us bitterness… — Eric Hoffer
How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon, simply because we… — William James
Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant; impossible socially, but full scale; and it's the knockings and battering we… — Elizabeth Bowen
It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us alike. — Robert Green Ingersoll

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