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“It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him”
“A person seldom falls sick, but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.”
“People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself.”
“Every principle is a war-note. Whoever attempts to carry out the rule of right and love and freedom must take his life in his hand.”
“Striving is perhaps the one and only true elixir, for while we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.”
“The whole day and evening at juvenile hall mimics what daily life is like in a normal family, what life should be like. Every one of these kids can be successful if the expectations are clear and they know you mean what you say. They need consistency and boundaries.”
Deborah Botts
“To live without duties is obscene.”
“Christianity is a world that is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there a rumor going around the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life.”
C.S. Lewis
“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.”
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