"The human heart has so many crannies where……" — John Calvin
"The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often dupes itself."
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237 Quotes by John Calvin
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The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and…
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— L. Ron Hubbard
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I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny,…
— William James
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The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling…
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Man, Sub-creator, the refracted light through whom is splintered from a single White to many hues, and endlessly combined in…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave…
— Gaston Bachelard
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It is through the tender austerity of our troubles that the Son of Man comes knocking. In every event He…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.
— Dr. Seuss
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Faced with a time shortage, we squeeze tasks into the nooks and crannies of our calendar, leaving less and less…
— Sendhil Mullainathan
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