"It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself."

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Source : Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1951). “Oration on the Dignity of Man”

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

#Generosity Quotes #Praise Quotes #Divine Quotes

“He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.”
“There's nothing wrong with stretching the truth. We stretch taffy, and that just makes it more delicious.”
“Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do.”

Source : "The Tzuredzure gusa of Yoshida no Kaneyoshi". Book by Yoshida Kenkō, translated by George Sansom, 1911.
“Everything you do to improve your physical well-being will have a positive impact on how good you feel about yourself.”
“It's really nice to have things to mail to people when they mail you things, or trade to people at shows. Something homemade, it feels... down to earth.”
“These are the days when birds come back, a very few, a Bird or two, to take a backward look.”
“One must be prepared to reject not only the schema of the physical library, which is essentially a response to books and their proliferation, but the schema of the book itself, and even that of the printed page as a long term storage device, if one is to discover the kinds of procognitive systems needed in the future.”

Source : "Quantitative measurement and dynamic library service" by Ching-chih Chen, (p. 52), 1980.
“I'm disappearing from twitter for a while. Need a break from the bile. Local prejudice just seems to bring out the worst in some people.”

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