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We can no more analyse such peace in the soul than we can conceive in our heads the whole enormous and dizzy equilibrium by which, out of suns roaring like infernos and heavens toppling like precipices, He has hanged the world upon nothing. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Arthur Conan Doyle quote: "That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which..."
That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed. Arthur Conan Doyle
Have pity on those who are fearful of taking up a pen, or a paintbrush, or an instrument, or a tool because they are afraid that someone has already done so better than they coul? Paulo Coelho
I fell into a deep sleep tucked in that little cocoon, a deeper sleep than I might of had in years. Right up until someone kicked me and said "Gotcha! James Patterson
Julian Barnes quote: "in this country shadings of class resist time longer than..."
....in this country shadings of class resist time longer than differentials in age Julian Barnes
In the search for our best selves, several questions will guide our thinking: Am I what I want to be? Am I closer to the Savior today than I was yesterday? Will I be closer yet tomorrow? Do I have the courage to change for the better? The years have come and the years have gone, but the need for a testimony of the gospel continues paramount. As we move toward the future, we must not neglect the lessons of the past. Thomas S. Monson
Pat Conroy quote: "I would always be a better hater of things and institutions..."
I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them. Pat Conroy
Herman Cain quote: "the possibility of success was motivating me more than the..."
...the possibility of success was motivating me more than the fear of failure. Herman Cain
I realize that for all my penchant in believing that there's more to the world than what we can see, that folk tales and fairy tales are based on real, if forgotten events, I never accepted that part of it as being real. Charles de Lint
It was the same night I gave myself to him completely, knowing that I would belong to him for as long as he wanted to keep me. And, as it turned out, even longer than that. Emily Giffin
That's life for you," said McDunn. "Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving some thing more than that thing loves them. And after a while you want to destroy whatever that thing is, so it can hurt you no more. Ray Bradbury
I found cause to wonder upon what ground the English accuse Americans of corrupting the language by introducing slang words. I think I heard more and more different kinds of slang during my few weeks' stay in London than in my whole "tenderloin" life in New York. But I suppose the English feel that the language is theirs, and that they may do with it as they please without at the same time allowing that privilege to others. James Weldon Johnson
George Byron quote: "Tis strange - but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger..."
Tis strange - but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction; George Byron
...she felt in her mind the consciousness that she was entitled to hold a higher rank from her merit, than the arbitrary despotism of religious prejudice permitted her to aspire to. Walter Scott
Theology is like a map. Merely learning and thinking about the Christian doctrines, if you stop there, is less real and less exciting than the sort of thing my friend got in the desert. Doctrines are not God: they are only a kind of map. But that map is based on the experience of hundreds of people who really were in touch with God--experiences compared with which many thrills of pious feelings you and I are likely to get on our own are very elementary and very confused. And secondly, if... C. S. Lewis

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