"So much of what is best in us……" — Haniel Long
"So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it."
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Haniel Long
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17 Quotes by Haniel Long
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When an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account.
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For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try…
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All poets and story tellers alive today make a single brotherhood; they are engaged in a single work, picturing our…
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And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?
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Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
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A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun…
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When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as…
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The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of…
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To strip a man of all loyalties but those to the state, makes him not only a worm but a…
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A gang is the same as a wolf pack; gang members do not use their energies in friendship with one…
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and…
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I do not believe that we can stop perfecting new ways of dying until we have found new ways of…
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