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That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.
Put no trust in the benefits to accrue from early rising, as set forth by the infatuated Franklin.
Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.
Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.
My heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings.
No one has ever seen a Republican mass meeting that was devoid of the perception of the ludicrous.
To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.
Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.
The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.
When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know.
To be a visionary parent, we need to keep working on ourselves, becoming forever new and improved.
Scars are the paler pain of survival received unwillingly and displayed in the language of injury.
External circumstances do not create feeling states. Feeling states create external circumstances.
May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility.
That I was born to this circle - I am blessed. That I choose to stand in this circle - I am proud.
I've come to the conclusion that you can't write scary books unless you're easily scared yourself.
There is something about her eyes. Eyes don't breathe. I know that much. But hers look breathless.
I remember the time I said, 'I don't think you love yourself. You need to learn to love yourself.'
A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.
love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel.
Trees and children are, of all living things, those whose growth soonest makes one feel one's age.
If you truly dwell within Acceptance, you are wityout two things-Expectations and Disappointments.
Falling in love happens so suddenly that it seems, all at once, that you have always been in love.
I don't think it's possible to write a good play or paint a good picture and be a good Republican.
It was scary how much she sounded like me sometimes. Maybe that's why she totally got on my nerves
It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.
Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well, but to find that done to them which they did to others.
There are few in America that really know how to take advantage of the current health care system.
English rain feels obligatory, like paperwork. It dampens already damn days and slicks the stones.
The monsters that rose from the dead, they are nothing compared to the ones we carry in our hearts
You may go days without thinking of God, but there's never a moment when He's not thinking of you.
Of all the things you must earn in life, God's unending affection is not one of them. You have it.
When you keep the porch light on for the prodigal child, you do what God does every single moment.
The sinless One took on the face of a sinner so that we sinners could take on the face of a saint.
Never let the church become a place where it's just a Las Vegas display place for you to show off.
To me that's always a little satisfying - to find an underdeveloped topic and start developing it.
We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.
Time itself is an individual gift. It is wise to cherish it carefully and give it away generously.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise.
It may in fact be utterly impossible to be successful without helping others to become successful.
Always in the black spirituals there's that promise that things are going to be better, by and by.
I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.
Still, when it looked like the sun wasn't going to shine anymore, God put a rainbow in the clouds.
Sometimes what you want is right in front of you. All you have to do is open your eyes and see it.
Our strength will continue if we allow ourselves the courage to feel scared, weak, and vulnerable.
Few things can make us feel crazier than expecting something from someone who has nothing to give.
Reality TV has managed to commodify everything we used to think of as the elements of normal life.
Our journey into consciousness of wealth begins with the realization that we have already arrived!