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Form may be of more account than substance. A lens of ice will focus a solar beam to a blaze.
If you care to see God, be pure. If you will not be pure, you will grow more and more impure.
As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.
As Christ is the blossom of humanity, so the blossom of every man is Christ perfected in him.
Show the reader what the character thinks about, and then the reader will think about it too.
What does remembering ourselves mean? It essentially means coming back to life- re-membering.
Now, I simply won’t let my friends, the people who trusted me, be bothered and badgered about
There's never any reason to trust someone. If there's a reason, then it's not trust. -Terence
It is never the machines that are dead. It is only the mechanically-minded men that are dead.
Whenever anyone, Buddhist or not, sees a Temple or an image of Buddha they receive blessings.
Everytime people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes.
You don't normally see incredibly ugly people who've gone missing and it becomes a sensation.
Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.
What did Romeo and Juliet do?” They died,” I remind her gently. “Some mix-up with the poison-
Education is not a race, with winners and losers. It's not a commodity to be bought and sold.
You deserve whoever governs you ... Everyone is responsible for the actions of their leaders.
Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.
Love is a one-way street. Love, like respect isn't something you get; it's something you give
You are your own refuge There is no other You cannot save another You can only save yourself.
How we remember changes how we have lived. Time runs both ways. We make stories of our lives.
One must understand what people are thinking, feeling and believing in order to enchant them.
Don’t be discouraged by the size of your network – inspire one person and you are doing good.
If you're in enough places at enough times, then some of them are bound to be the right ones.
I don't "need" the rush to be happy. I'd be perfectly happy without the attention and action.
So far as English versification is concerned, Pope was the world, and all the world was Pope.
Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead.
Never let a boy know you're crazy about him. He'll lose interest, and then you'll be a loser.
Give up being perfect for being authentic. Be who you are. Love who you are. Others will too.
I respect every way in which you are a troublemaker, now get up and do what your mother says.
After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.
I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.
I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live.
Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.
I am a child of my generation, and I rejoice that I live in such splendidly disturbing times.
Carrying a grudge is a heavy burden. As you forgive, you will feel the joy of being forgiven.
Hoeing: A manual method of severing roots from stems of newly planted flowers and vegetables.
It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Equally important is the job you are working at.
We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor.
It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.
It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.
The poet uses the results of science and philosophy, and generalizes their widest deductions.
Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.
Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances.
Even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development.
To say that a man is your Friend means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy.
Being a teacher is like being in jail; once it's on your record, you can never get rid of it.
The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.
Friends will be much apart. They will respect more each other's privacy than their communion.
The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.