Percy Jewett Burrell famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Our very genesis was not really a beginning after all, but indeed the product of a personality-Father Mills.
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It is a truism that as long as man loves but himself and his art he can never attain to the full measure of manhood or reach the sublimest heights of his art. He must seek to love men as brothers and art, not for the sake of art itself, but art as a means toward bringing all men up to that verdant plateau where their souls may be fed in very rejoicing in all that is true, beautiful, and abiding.
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He has not truly lived who has not lived for others, in sympathy and in harmony with his fellows.
-- Percy Jewett Burrell
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Pray, always pray; beneath sins heaviest load, Prayer claims the blood from Jesus' side that flowed. Pray, always pray; though weary, faint, and lone, Prayer nestles by the Father's sheltering throne.
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Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.
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I wanted to live. For the father and brother who I never knew and for my mother who was cheated of a life of happiness. I wanted to live for them. And I wanted to live for me.
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Basic personality traits develop early in life and over time become inviolable, hardwired. Most people learn little from experience, rarely thinking of adjusting their behavior, see problems as emanating from those around them, and keep on doing what they do in spite of everything, for better or worse.
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On every level, despite differences in personalities and jobs, every single human being needs recognition and support.
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I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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The mine owners did not find the gold, they did not mine the gold, they did not mill the gold, but by some weird alchemy all the gold belonged to them!
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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Ask yourself whether you are happy', observed the philosopher John Stuart Mill, 'and you cease to be so.' At best, it would appear, happiness can only be glimpsed out of the corner of an eye, not stared at directly.
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