Quotes with oldies-but-goodies

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  • Henry David Thoreau It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Barbara Hambly It'll take a while for all those strange old books that I love to show up on digital: books that aren't current bestsellers but aren't public-domain freebies, either.
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  • Molière It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant I’ve learned to accept birth and death . . . but sometimes I still worry about what lies between.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • Bob Dylan Johnny's in the basement
    Mixing up the medicine
    I'm on the pavement
    Thinking about the government
    The man in the trenchcoat
    Badge out, laid off
    Says he's got a bad cough
    Wants to get it paid off
    Look out kid
    It's somethin' you did
    God knows when
    But you're doin' it again
    Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • A. W. Tozer Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment. [The Root Of The Righteous]
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Hermann Hesse Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • Jimi Hendrix Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
    Jimi Hendrix
    American guitarist and singer-songwriter (1942 - 1970)
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  • William Cowper Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Dorothy L. Sayers Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.
    Dorothy L. Sayers
    British writer (1893 - 1957)
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  • Novalis Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
    Novalis
    German poet and writer (ps. van Georg van Hardenberg) (1772 - 1801)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Thornton T. Munger Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.
    Thornton T. Munger
    American scientist and environmentalist
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  • St. John of the Cross Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.
    St. John of the Cross
    Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest (1542 - 1591)
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  • Bertrand Russell Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven.
    Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Eugene O'Neill Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.
    Eugene O'Neill
    American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature (1888 - 1953)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by other men.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Vera Brittain Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.
    Vera Brittain
    English nurse, writer, feminist, and pacifist (1893 - 1970)
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