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Post by Gator on Nov 26, 2021 9:58:47 GMT -5
Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
George Eliot
(1819-1880)
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Post by Gator on Nov 27, 2021 12:00:44 GMT -5
Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882)
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Post by Gator on Nov 28, 2021 11:12:05 GMT -5
I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.
W. Somerset Maugham
(1874-1965)
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Post by Gator on Nov 29, 2021 13:36:20 GMT -5
Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
William Shakespeare
(1564-1616)
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Post by Gator on Nov 30, 2021 2:23:15 GMT -5
It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
(1804-1864)
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Post by Gator on Dec 1, 2021 12:48:39 GMT -5
The Past is the region of sobs, the Future is the realm of song. In the one crouches Memory, clad in sackcloth and ashes, mumbling penitential prayer; in the sunshine of the other Hope flies with a free wing, beckoning to temples of success and bowers of ease.
Ambrose Bierce
(1842-1914)
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Post by Gator on Jan 2, 2022 15:26:01 GMT -5
Curiosity is natural to the soul of man, and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.
John Filson
(1747-1788)
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Post by Gator on Jan 3, 2022 1:43:32 GMT -5
It is the same with man as with the tree ... The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep—into the evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844-1900)
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Post by Gator on Jan 4, 2022 15:03:15 GMT -5
There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free.
Edith Wharton
(1862-1937)
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Post by Gator on Jan 5, 2022 15:01:13 GMT -5
Of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are most apt to get out of order.
Herman Melville
(1819-1891)
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Post by Gator on Jan 6, 2022 14:54:28 GMT -5
Women ... have more power for good or evil than they dream of.
Jerome K. Jerome
(1859-1927)
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Post by Gator on Jan 8, 2022 15:27:50 GMT -5
Brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.
L. Frank Baum
(1856-1919)
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Post by Gator on Jan 9, 2022 1:27:37 GMT -5
I don't think, sir, you have a right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.
Charlotte Bronte
(1816-1855)
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Post by Gator on Jan 10, 2022 15:34:40 GMT -5
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Henry David Thoreau
(1817-1862)
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Post by Gator on Jan 11, 2022 15:21:16 GMT -5
It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.
George Eliot
(1819-1880)
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