We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white. Great short quote and quotation by: Eric […]
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We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life. Great short quote and quotation by: Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Speech to the graduating class at Harvard (1978) , Russian author & dissident in US (1918 – )
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We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves. Great short quote and quotation by: Marilyn Manson ,
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Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 26, 2002
We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of God?s existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, […]
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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 […]
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We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us. Great short quote and quotation by: Lionel Trilling ,
Wealth is not of necessity a curse, nor poverty a blessing. Wholesome and easy abundance is better than either extreme; better for our manhood that we have enough for daily comfort; enough for culture, for hospitality, for charity. More than this may or may not be a blessing. Certainly it can be a blessing only […]
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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little. Great short quote and quotation by: Leszezynski Stanislaus ,
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little Great short quote and quotation by: Stanislaus ,
Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised. Great short quote and quotation by: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations , Roman Emperor, A.D. 161-180 (121 AD – 180 […]
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When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman? Great short quote and quotation by: Oliver Wendell Holmes , US author & physician (1809 – 1894)
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When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention. Great short quote and quotation by: E. F. Benson ,