"Losing innocence. Remembering Heaven. That was the essence……" — John Jakes
"Losing innocence. Remembering Heaven. That was the essence of Hell"
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13 Quotes by John Jakes
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The pain comes from knowing that we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes…
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Going after anything worthwile in life entailed risk, of course. A man of ambition and courage didn't let that stop…
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Libraries are magical places. There's nothing quite like strolling the hushed aisles, letting your eye rove along dimly lit shelves.…
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Spend as much time as you can with your mouth shut and your eyes and ears open.
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Guilty she might be. But what human being was not? There were things in her past she needn't be ashamed…
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No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone, but is beyond control: luck.
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The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.
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Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write,…
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We are all dying of life.
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The pain comes from more than the facts of circumstance, or the deeds of others. It comes from within. From…
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I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One…
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The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire…
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More Essence Quotes
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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
— Aristotle
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Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
— Nnamdi Azikiwe
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but…
— Isaac Asimov
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Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very…
— Sai Baba
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy…
— Irving Babbitt
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The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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I think love can come fairly easily and grow - but really liking the core essence of someone is a…
— Eric Bana
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The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
— John Adams
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The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
— Jane Addams
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Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you…
— Glenn Beck
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What is the essence of theosophy? It is the fact that man, being himself divine, can know the divinity whose…
— Annie Besant
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It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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