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While I meditate on the gulf towards which I travelled, and reflect on my youthful disobedience, for these things I weep, mine…
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I believe that where the love of God is perfected and the true spirit of government watchfully attended to, a tenderness toward…
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All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter,…
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Now I find that in pure obedience the mind learns contentment, in appearing weak and foolish to the wisdom which is of…
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There is a principle which is pure, placed in the human mind, which in different places and ages hath had different names.…
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To Turn all the treasures we possess into the channel of universal love becomes the business of our lives.
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My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to…
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If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions…
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Be careful that the love of gain draw us not into any business which may weaken our love of our Heavenly Father,…
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Conduct is more convincing than language.
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To say we love God as unseen and at the same time exercise cruelty toward the least creature moving by His life…
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I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God,…
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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
— John Cage
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We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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We possess only the happiness we able to understand.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are…
— George Santayana
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We possess within us a force of incalculable power, which if we direct it in a conscious and wise manner, gives us…
— Emile Coue
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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in…
— Werner Heisenberg
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Government is necessary, but the only rights we can delegate to government are the ones we possess. For example, we all have…
— Walter E. Williams
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We attract hearts by the qualities we display; we retain them by he qualities we possess.
— Unknown Author
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The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser.
— Michel de Montaigne
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In any activity, we have to know what to expect, how to reach our objectives and what capacity we possess for the…
— Paulo Coelho
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We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared...The longer we live, the more life…
— Harold S. Kushner
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When we invite the Holy Ghost to fill our minds with light and knowledge, He "quickens" us, that is to say, enlightens…
— Keith K. Hilbig
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