In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably. ~George MacDonald
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Faith itself cannot accomplish anything, yet without faith, no one can fly. ~Charles R. Swindoll
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You don't run out on people; you run out on yourself. ~Truman Capote
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The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature. ~Joseph Addison
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
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The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, the positive pronounce without dismay. ~William Cowper
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Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb
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He who lives without discipline dies without honour. ~Icelandic Proverb
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Taxes grow without rain. ~Jewish Proverb
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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Anger without power is folly. ~German Proverb
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Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ~William Makepeace Thackeray
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We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them. ~Bill Harley
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Loyalty, Signor Molteni, not love. Penelope is loyal to Ulysses but we do not know how far she loved him; and as you know people can sometimes be absolutely loyal without loving. In certain cases, in fact, loyalty is form of vengeance, of black-mail, of recovering one's self-respect. Loyalty, not love. ~Alberto Moravia
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Instead of living in the sunshine of God's forgiveness through Christ, we tend to live under an overcast sky of guilt most of the time. ~Jerry Bridges
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The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. ~Thomas Jefferson
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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. ~Thomas Fuller
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The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither. ~Thomas Jefferson
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Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting. ~Craig Claiborne
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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west. ~Thomas Pynchon
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Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die. ~Daniel Burnham
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Music is the eye of the ear. ~Thomas Draxe
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We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood, whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it. ~Thomas Friedman
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