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- We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while…
- Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings. Even if we loved someone else better than -…
- The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the…
- If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination of results by…
- If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age…
- Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.
- The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again…
- Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by…
- When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he…
- Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded; they know all…
- Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock…
- More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple pity that will not forsake us
- Here was a man who now for the first time found himself looking into the eyes of death--who was passing through one of those rare…
- ... we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them ...
- Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brandof slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning.
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- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong