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A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
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A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.
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Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
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Laughter is by definition healthy.
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Better Counsel comes overnight.
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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.
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What is a hero without love for mankind.
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Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
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Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
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The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.
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It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
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Pearls mean tears.
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Literature is analysis after the event.
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Small things amuse small minds.
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Suspicion follows close on mistrust.
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Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fanta...
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Time Bites: Views and Reviews
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I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.
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In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.
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Laughter is by definition healthy
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What matters most is that we learn from living
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There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
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The kitten was six weeks old. It was enchanting, a delicate fairy-tale cat, whose Siamese genes show...
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فكري بالطريقة الخاطئة ولكن من فضلك ، فكري في نفسك في كل ...
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When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publisher...
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He destroyed in her the knowing, doubting, sophisticated Ella, and again and again he put her intell...
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I am increasingly afflicted by vertigo where words mean nothing
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Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.
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Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when yo...
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People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.
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I'm going to make the obvious point that maybe the word neurotic means the condition of being highly...
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Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.
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We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.
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I don't write well when I'm sitting there sweating about every single phrase.
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I always hated Tony Blair, from the beginning.
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Joy makes us giddy, dizzy. [Ger., Die Freude macht drehend, wirblicht.]
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The superstition in which we grew up,
Though we may recognize it, does not lose
Its power over...
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A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.
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Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which the intention is so clearly evident...
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The real beggar is indeed the true and only king. [Ger., Der wahre Bettler ist Doch einzig und...
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Borrowing is not much better than begging. [Ger., Borgen ist nicht viel besser als betteln.]
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For the will and not the gift makes the giver. [Ger., Denn der Wille Und nicht die Gabe macht ...
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They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.
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For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.
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Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.
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While Fell was reposing himself in the hay, A reptile concealed bit his leg as he lay; But, al...
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Suspicion follows close on mistrust. [Ger., Argwohnen folgt auf Misstrauen.]
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The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.
GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING

Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever
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Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.
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If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose.
GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING

They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds
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Das Blut allein macht lange noch den Vater nicht.
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If some things don’t make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose.
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The true value of man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by...
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He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.
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Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
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A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.
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Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the...
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He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose
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The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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Nothing recedes like progress.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more...
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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
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It takes three to make a child.
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
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E E CUMMINGS Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E E CUMMINGS It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS

He without fear is king of the world.
E. E. EDDISON

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight th...
E. E. CUMMINGS To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CUMMINGS

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
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A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. ...
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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blu...
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. CUMMINGS

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
E. E. CUMMINGS Palm Sunday In the person of Christ, the formidable law of God, which by itself appalls us by its...
E. E. JENKINS To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E E CUMMINGS The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical er...
E E CUMMINGS To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybod...
E E CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybod...
E E CUMMINGS The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E E CUMMINGS Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E E CUMMINGS Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E E CUMMINGS Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
E E CUMMINGS

One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.

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