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If you love books enough, books will love you back.
Nothing about my life or my career has been linear.
To die on a dying Earth - I'd live, if only to weep
Everything great and intelligent is in the minority
The sea is flowing ever, The land retains it never.
What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.
To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
The highest cannot be spoken; it can only be acted.
There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.
I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.
The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.
Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue.
You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling.
For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.
The best prayers have often more groans than words.
She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.
Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God.
The Merchants of Carolina, are fair, frank Traders.
It is good walking when one hath his horse in hand.
We believed we were safe. That was the big fantasy.
If you once love Him, you will study to please Him.
Book reviewers are little old ladies of both sexes.
But whats the use of being old if you cant be dumb?
The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job.
PRONOIA: The irrational belief that people like you
I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
It is not sin that kills the soul, but impenitence.
All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste.
Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself.
A violin should be played with love, or not at all.
Drink your coffee -- people in Africa are sleeping.
To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.
Perhaps love is essential because it's unnecessary.
...boredom was as exhausting as backbreaking labor.
Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.
And because love, real love, is not so easily shed.
Books are wonderful, but they aren't that powerful.
In Light there is Dark, and in Dark there is Light.
Finding the book was like kissing a lightning bolt.
Libraries are the backbone of our education system.
Oh, how powerfully the magnet of illusion attracts.
Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.
How will the world change if we do not question it?
Your body is a jewel box.....the jewel is your soul