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  • Henry David Thoreau As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Oscar Wilde As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Alan Cohen As soon as you become aware that something is not working, immediately shift your focus to the desired result.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Joseph Stowell As we mature spiritually, we exhibit a growing capacity to care for and appreciate one another in the body of Christ, regardless of our differences.
    Joseph Stowell
    American Christian author
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  • Les Brown As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Bill Hybels As you walk with God, your faith will grow, your confidence will increase and your prayers will have real power.
    Source: Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Alcuin of York At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
    Alcuin of York
    English scholar, clergyman and poet
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  • Brendan Francis At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.
    Brendan Francis
    Irish poet and writer (1923 - 1964)
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  • Henry David Thoreau At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • George Orwell Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Henry Miller Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Blind Lemon Jefferson Back water rising, coming in my windows and doors I leave with a prayer in my heart: back water won't rise no more
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  • George Washington Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Sir Cecil Beaton Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
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  • St. Teresa of Avila Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.
    St. Teresa of Avila
    Spanish saint, mystic (1515 - 1582)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Be not simply good; be good for something.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Jean-Luc Godard Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.
    Jean-Luc Godard
    French film director (1930 - 2022)
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  • Plato Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Emily Dickinson Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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