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the breed is more than the pasture. As you know, the cuckoo lays her eggs in any bird's nest it may be hatched among blackbirds or robins or thrushes, but it is always a cuckoo. ... a man cannot deliver himself from his ancestors.

Amelia Barr

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Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful to go to work with a full sense of life to be determined to put hindrances out of the way to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful there is no beatitude for the despairing.
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Perhaps when the light of heaven shows us clearly the pitfalls and dangers of the earth road that led to the heavenly city, our sweetest songs of gratitude will be not for the troubles we have conquered, but for those we have escaped.
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Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition.
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When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.
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There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
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The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
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... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.
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Men can bear all things but good days.
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Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
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What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.
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It is not that we have a soul, we are a soul.
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Forethought spares afterthought.
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politicians ... turn patriotism into shopkeeping and their own interest - men who care far more for who governs us than for how we are governed.. And what will be the end of such ways? I will tell you. We shall have a Democracy that will be the reign of those who know the least and talk the loudest.
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Dreams are large possessions ... they are an expansion of life, an enlightenment, and a discipline. I thank God for my dream life my daily life would be far poorer, if it wanted the second sight of dreams.
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Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.
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