"As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness."

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Source : James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.406

James Russell Lowell

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“We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget.”

Source : Sarah Bernhardt (1968). “Memories of my life, being my personal, professional, and social recollections as woman and artist”
“Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining social (or anti-social) characteristic of our age: public drunkenness, excessive gambling, promiscuity and common-or-garden rudeness are all examples of our collective loss of self-control.”
“The confidence is there, the game is there, but physically you can't fight nature sometimes. You can't do much about it.”
“People underestimate the impact they can have on the process through contact with legislators. By being part of an organized group in an area that you have an interest in, you can multiply the impact of your own ideas.”
“I'm going to a dance." With Becky?" No, with Alexander." Who's Alexander?" The love of my life!”
“Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.”
“Many New Testament scholars have observed that the conception of the resurrection body implied in 1 Corinthians 15 clashes so violently with that presupposed in the gospels that the latter must be dismissed as secondary embellishments, especially as 1 Corinthians predates the gospels.”
“I think all these great comforts that come from the human condition of trying to make things easier on ourselves also have these pitfalls, where things become so easy that we forget how enjoyable building a fence can be.”

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