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Owen Wister

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BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH Open your eyes, Train your ears, Use your head; If a mind you have, use it while you can.
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OWEN WISTER When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have.
OWEN WISTER When yu' can't have why you choose, yu' just choose what you have.
OWEN WISTER When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.
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OWEN GLENDOWER Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping.
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OWEN FELTHAM There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
OWEN FELTHAM Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
OWEN FELTHAM Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.
OWEN FELTHAM Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.
OWEN FELTHAM Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
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JOHN OWEN Common experience declares how momentary and how useless are those violent fits and gusts of endeavo...
JOHN OWEN Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus A LETTER FROM PAUL THE MISSIONARY TO THE SOCIETY OF CH...
JOHN OWEN Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941 That fear which keeps ...
JOHN OWEN He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. H...
JOHN OWEN Let them pretend what they please, the true reason why any despise the new birth is because they hat...
JOHN OWEN In all the sins of men, God principally regards the principle -- that is, the heart.
JOHN OWEN It is to be feared that the most of us know not how much glory may be in present grace, nor how much...
JOHN OWEN The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or makin...
WILFRED OWEN As a youngster, I was considered exceptional, and in many ways that was to my detriment.
MICHAEL OWEN The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements,...
JOHN OWEN There are all kinds of ways for a relationship to be tested, even broken, some, irrevocably; it’s ...
KATHERINE OWEN The old lie; Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.
(Sweet and fitting it is to die for the fathe...
WILFRED OWEN The important thing is to know when to laugh, or since laughing is somewhat undignified to smile. Bu...
RODERIC OWEN Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.
OWEN MEREDITH Was it for this the clay grew tall?
WILFRED OWEN Now rather thank I God there is no riskOf gravers scoring it with florid screed.Let my inscription b...
WILFRED OWEN