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“Our devotional life with God is more like the planting of a garden. When we arise from sowing into the secret place, we will not usually be able to point to immediate results or benefits. What we sow today will require an entire season of growth before the results are manifest.”
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“Compassion costs. It is easy enough to argue, criticize and condemn, but redemption is costly, and comfort draws from the deep. Brains can argue, but It takes heart to comfort.”
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“Kindle the taper like the steadfast star Ablaze on evening's forehead o'er the earth, And add each night a lustre till afar An eightfold splendor shine above thy hearth.”
Source : Emma Lazarus, John Hollander (2005). “Selected Poems”, p.87, Library of America
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“To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far.”
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“I have a cause higher and nobler than my own, a cause to which all private interests and concerns must be subordinated.”
Source : "'I made the ring from a bullet and the pin of a hand grenade'". Interview with Katharine Viner, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2001.
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“There's always a time in any series of work where you get to a certain point and your work is going steadily and each picture is better than the next, and then you sort of level off and that's when you realize that it's not that each picture is better then the next, it's that each picture up's the ante. And that every time you take one good picture, the next one has got to be better.”
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“Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.”
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“I do understand that you can look into someone’s eyes,†I heard myself saying, “and suddenly know that life will be impossible without them. Know that their voice can make your heart miss a beat and that their company is all your happiness can ever desire and that their absence will leave your soul alone, bereft and lost.”
Source : Bernard Cornwell (1997). “The Winter King: A Novel of Arthur”, p.360, Macmillan