“ By starving emotions, we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped. By repressing them, we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou. Encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it. ”
- Joseph Collins- Copy
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“ It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only. ”
- Sir William Blake- Copy
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“ The hands that help are holier than the lips that pray. ”
- Robert Green Ingersoll- Copy
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“ Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books. ”
- John Updike- Copy
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