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For no mortal ever attains to blessedness. One may be luckier than another when wealth flows his way, but blessed never.
It is important to increase our sense of God's richness and wonder by reading what his great lovers have said about him.
If it could only be like this always - always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper.
I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence.
You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them
The nest may be constructed, so far as the sticks go, by the male bird; but only the hen can line it with moss and down!
Beauty loved him more than anything, her Beast boy, but, secretly, sometimes, she wished he would have remained a Beast.
The feeling of love is measured by the extent of missing the feverish state in which the absence of the other plunges us
The deepest repentance and humility and our own frailty and weakness must be realized before we can know God's strength.
A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.
A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.
In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion.
You're not cross with me, though?" he said. She pulled her hand away and answered, "No, no, I'm never cross with anyone.
The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. Theres never a need to feel lost anymore.
Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open.
I don't have a lot of men in my life. I'm married, but I have daughters. I'm surrounded by a lot of females in my world.
I think a lot of the things in my life that I become most passionate about, and most excited about, are all from comics.
The crucial role of the rich in a capitalist economy is... to invest; to provide unencumbered and unbureaucratized cash.
Everything was God, holy; as God is total, so the driftwood branch was holy. This must be the stuff religion is made of.
Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky, I gaze upon each orb of light, And wish that thou wert by.
There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity.
I think when you see [Donald] Trump in person, my reaction is you kind of enjoy it. It's kind of an enjoyable night out.
The only refuge left to us was the poet's ivory tower, which we climbed, ever higher, to isolate ourselves from the mob.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.
Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?
I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.
The big corporation is not in the least remarkable for efficiency; it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency.
Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well.
I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality.
To invent a war means that you've become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
Some have deplored Lincoln's indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
There is only one party in the United States: the Property party... and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt
You have to understand that we've had more than 40 years now of massively financed propaganda called the 'War on Drugs'.
When One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks, not that you won or lost, but how you played the game.
Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than nineteen years of dealing with him across the desk.
After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more stood empty, and the succession of identical days began again.
It is in writing of the emotions that style becomes most individual, in moments of passion, betrayal, of life and death.
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it.
Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument.
Huge organizations and me don't get along. They're too inflexible, waste too much time, and have too many stupid people.
Mulling this over, Vlad wiped her lip gloss from his lips with the back of his hand.Vampires, after all, didn't sparkle.
Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world.
When you ask God for a gift, Be thankful if he sends, Not diamonds, pearls or riches, but the love of real true friends.
It takes a Mother's Patience, to bring a child up right, And her Courage and her Cheerfulness to make a dark day bright.