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It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Henry County
Kentucky
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You cannot devalue the body and value the soul Or value anything else.
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Having hope is hard harder when you get older.
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O Thou, Far off and here, whole and broken, Who in necessity and in bounty wait, Whose truth is light and dark, mute though spoken, By Thy wide grace show me Thy narrow gate.
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Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint.
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When I rise up, let me rise up joyful like a bird. When I fall, let me fall without regret like a leaf.
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