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A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is...
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I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends...
Quote #24784
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.
Quote #4163
For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few...
Quote #24783
Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals...
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I’ve never known any trouble that an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.
Quote #33685
Things don’t fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and...
Quote #22963
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
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The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can...
Quote #25516
There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his...