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  • C. S. Lewis God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Meister Eckhart God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.
    Meister Eckhart
    German mystic (1260 - 1328)
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  • R. A. Torrey God's Word is pure and sure, in spite of the devil, in spite of your fear, in spite of everything.
    R. A. Torrey
    American evangelist, pastor, educator, and writer (1856 - 1928)
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  • Brian De Palma Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he's so brilliant.
    Brian De Palma
    American film director and screenwriter (1940 - )
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  • C. Thomas Howell Going from a child actor to an adult actor is not an easy thing, and I was sort of lost in a no man's land for a while, trying to figure out who I was as a person, and going from a young actor to an adult actor.
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  • Ezra Pound Good art however ''immoral'' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Plutarch Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • John Dryden Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Ben Simmons Growing up in Australia and the way I was raised, my dad told me to play as a team and to be a team player. You have five guys on the court. It's easy for five guys to defend one guy. It's hard to guard five. It's just a natural thing to do.
    Ben Simmons
    Australian basketball player (1996 - )
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  • Becki Newton Growing up, I had a terrible pudding-bowl haircut. I used to cut it myself, and I'd sew my own clothing, too. I looked a little strange compared to the other kids. But the thing was, I felt I looked amazing, so what other people thought never bothered me.
    Becki Newton
    American actress (1978 - )
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  • Mark Twain Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Sir John Lubbock Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
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  • William Butler Yeats Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.
    Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
    American author, feminist and intellectual (1844 - 1911)
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  • Paul E. Little Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp.
    Paul E. Little
    American Christian author
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  • Homer Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • David Storey Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.
    David Storey
     
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