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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things.
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Politeness has well been defined as benevolence in small things.
Source: Essays (Boswell) -
Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
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Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.
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Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.
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Prayer among men is supposed a means to change the person to whom we pray; but prayer to God doth not change him, but fits us to receive the things prayed for.
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Prayer is talking with God and telling Him you love Him, conversing with God about all the things that are important in life, both large and small, and being assured that He is listening.
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President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, 'I wish you were still in the Senate; I need your help.' I'm not certain I can help on everything. Maybe some things.
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Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes.
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Prosperity is not just having things. It is the consciousness that attracts the things. Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just having money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.
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Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.
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Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.
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Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.
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Radical simply means "grasping things at the root.".
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Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in the world. A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.
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Read good, big important things.
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Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration.
Source: Chocolate Soldier, by C. T. Studd -
Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful avoidance of all discussion, the swift hopping from topic to topic, does not agree with me; but the graceful style they do it with is beyond that of minuets!
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Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.
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