“ The world is touched by sacrifice. It does not then discriminate about the merits of a cause. Not so God - He is all seeing. He insists on the purity of the cause and on adequate sacrifice thereof. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof. ”
- Sir Walter Raleigh- Copy
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“ There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
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“ The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth: and he that is wise will not abhor them. Was not the water made sweet with wood, that the virtue thereof might be known? ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
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“ Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
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“ Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof. ”
- Thomas Fuller- Copy
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“ Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with… the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the sun. ”
- Katherine Mansfield- Copy
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“ And thereof do I repent: I only plucked an occasional flower when I might have gathered an ample harvest of fruit — such are the just grounds for the regrets I have … ”
- Marquis de Sade- Copy
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“ There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own. ”
- Herman Melville- Copy
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“ This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. ”
- Neil Gaiman- Copy
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“ Thou shalt understand that it is a science most profitable, and passing all other sciences, for to learn to die. For a man to know that he shall die, that is common to all men; as much as there is no man that may ever live or he hath hope or trust thereof; but thou shalt find full few that hath this cunning to learn to die… ”
- Heinrich Suso- Copy
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“ Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof. ”
- Thomas Fuller- Copy
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“ It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth… and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ History has an ebb and flow of justice, but history also has a visible direction set by liberty and the author of liberty. When the Declaration of Independence was first read in public and the Liberty Bell was sounded in celebration, a witness said, "It rang as if it meant something… ”
- George W. Bush- Copy
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“ Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church and State. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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