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Don't look down on them for looking down on us. Look at them, instead, as friends we don't know yet and who don't yet know what they are missing in not knowing us.
Frederick Buechner
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Frederick Buechner
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 11
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Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention.
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... the world can give you these glimpses as well as fairy tales can--the smell of rain, the dazzle of sun on white clapboard with the shadows of ferns and wash on the line, the wildness of a winter storm when in the house the flame of a candle doesn't even flicker.
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Beneath the worst the world can do, there is always the glimmer of the best.
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the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all
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The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.
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