"We love in others what we lack in……" — Richard Henry Stoddard
"We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are."
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Richard Henry Stoddard
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8 Quotes by Richard Henry Stoddard
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We grow like flowers, and bear desire, the odor of the human flowers.
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Children are the keys of Paradise.They alone are good and wise, Because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer.
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Silence is the speech of love, The music of the spheres above.
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We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.
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There are gains for all our losses, There are balms for all our pain: But when youth, the dream, departs,…
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There is no death-the thing that we call death Is but another, sadder name for life, Which is itself an…
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Day and night my thoughts incline To the blandishments of wine, Jars were made to drain, I think; Wine, I…
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More Lack Quotes
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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But…
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There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful…
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Learn from your dreams what you lack.
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Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Where do we say that a cell became a blade of grass, which became a starfish, which became a cat,…
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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action…
— James A. Baldwin
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The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that…
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People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective…
— Albert Bandura
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Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.
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