"True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics."

-- Bayard Taylor

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“Give us the grace - When the sacredness of life before birth is attacked, to stand up and proclaim that no one ever has the authority to destroy unborn life.”
“Looking back, it was the thing in his life that shamed him the most: the times he was purposefully, calculatingly mean to Alice. It was those moments, and there had been many of them, that indicated to him that he was not a good person. He got mad at her for many things, but it was always really for the same thing: that she possessed his love and he couldn't seem to get it back. She didn't deserve it, which was to say she deserved better”
“Next to praying there is nothing so important in practical religion as Bible-reading.”
“It was tough, I gave everything I had on those match points but she just came up with better shots. I still find it very hard to believe. Its amazing.”
“Leadership is demonstrated at the moment of need. You learn to be a leader by acting, by doing”
“A man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be.”
“There was some discussion, but nothing got close to being a reality. They asked for a lot and got a lot (from the White Sox).”
“I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.”

Source : Carolyn Wells (1937). “The Rest of My Life”

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