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Phillips Brooks
The earth has grown old with its burden of care But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung.
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H. L. Mencken
Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.
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Blaise Pascal
We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.
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Numbers 21:7, Holy Bible
Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. (Lesson of trust)
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Maya Angelou
I answer the heroic question 'Death, where is thy sting' with 'It is here in my heart and mind and memories.'
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Gustave Flaubert, "Madame Bovary", ch. 12
...exaggerated turns of speech conceal mediocre affections: as if the fulness of the soul might not sometimes overflow in the emptiest of metaphors, since no one, ever, can give the exact measurements of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sufferings, and the human word is like a cracked cauldron upon which we beat out melodies fit for making bears dance when we are trying to move the stars to pity.
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Margaret Deland
One must desire something to be alive.
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Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
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Swami Vivekananda
Purity,patience, and preserverance are the three essentials to success, and above all love.
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Jerry Coleman
Sometimes, big trees grow out of acorns. I think I heard that from a squirrel.
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W. C. Fields
I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake--which I also keep handy.
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Samuel P. Huntington
The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.
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