"I know what kind of people would have the hottest corner in my conception of hell. It would be those who have helped to give goodness a bad name."

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Source : Annie Edith Foster Jameson, J. E. Buckrose (1923). “What I Have Gathered”

J. E. Buckrose

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“Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.”
“Fly me up to where you are beyond the distant star. I wish upon tonight to see you smile, if only for a while to know you're there. A breath away's not far to where you are.”

Source : Song: To Where You Are, Album: Josh Groban
“Oasis are not just influenced by the Beatles; they actually take stuff. Then they get praised.”
“...surely I could give him--a sort of contentment... That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver.”
“I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.”
“I don't know how to tell it--but ef such a thing could be As the angels wantin' boardin', and they'd call around on me-- I'd want to 'ccommodate 'em--all the whole-in-durin' flock-- When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.”

Source : James Whitcomb Riley, “When The Frost Is On The Punkin”
“It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.”

Source : George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more”, p.494, e-artnow
“Were the talents and virtues which heaven has bestowed on men given merely to make them more obedient drudges, to be sacrificed to the follies and ambition of a few? Or, were not the noble gifts so equally dispensed with a divine purpose and law, that they should as nearly as possible be equally exerted, and the blessings of Providence be equally enjoyed by all?”

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