N. V. M. Gonzalez famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.
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Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them home. Home return who him behold, Child to mother, sheep to fold, Bird to nest from wandering wide: Happy bridegroom, seek your bride.
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Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions which could not be extracted from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behavior not otherwise excusable.
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The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
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I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism.
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You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.
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Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
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Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
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A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
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