"The grand old Book of God still stands; and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned over and pondered, the more it will sustain and illustrate the Sacred word."

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Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

James Dwight Dana

#Book Quotes #Earth Quotes #Sacred Quotes

“As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves.”
“Weak minds make treaties with the passions they cannot overcome, and try to purchase happiness at the expense of principle; but the resolute will of a strong man scorns such means, and struggles nobly with his foe to achieve great deeds.”
“The light was leaving in the west it was blue The children's laughter sang and skipping just like the stones they threw the voices echoed across the way its getting late It was just another night with the sun set and the moon rise not so far behind to give us just enough light to lay down underneath the stars listen to papas translations of the stories across the sky we drew our own constellations”
“I think that Hiphop should be a pulpit for the people.”
“As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included.”
“All I really try and do is live up to my potential and do as well as I possibly could and to bring to the ballpark each and every day a good effort and do the best that I could each and every day.”
“It's a thin line between paper and hate, Friends and snakes, nine millis and thirty-eights, Hell or the pearly gates...I was destined to come, Predicted, blame God, He blew breath in my lungs.”

Source : Song: Hate Me Now, Album: I Am..., 1999
“For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all the muscles.”

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