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No man is the whole of himself his friends are the rest of him.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
Age: 91 †
Born: 1878
Born: May 24
Died: 1969
Died: October 5
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Don't simply retire from something have something to retire to.
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Divinity is not something supernatural that ever and again invades the natural order in a crashing miracle. Divinity is not in some remote heaven, seated on a throne. Divinity is love. . . . Wherever goodness, beauty, truth, love, are-there is the divine.
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It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.
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Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
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I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.
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Bitterness imprisons life love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life love empowers it. Bitterness sours life love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life love heals it. Bitterness blinds life love anoints its eyes.
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