"God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency."

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Wendell Phillips

#Justice Quotes #Giving Quotes #Guarantees Quotes

“Is that a good definition of marking the ageing watershed? That moment when you realize - quite rationally, quite unemotionally - that the world in the not-so-distant future will not contain you: that the trees you planted will continue growing but you will not be there to see them.”
“People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.”

Source : George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2917, e-artnow
“Your future is not ahead of you, it's trapped within you”
“Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.”
“To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”
“Grace has uprooted us from a barren wilderness of sin and transplanted us by streams of living water.”
“Me: Well, you see, I, uh, I'm a cancer survivor. Person #1: And how's that working out for you? Me: Well, you see, I, uh, used to have leukemia. Person #2: Dude, how come you're not, like, BALD? Me: Well, you see, I, uh, I had acute lymphocytic lymphoma when I was five. Person #3: Whoa. THAT must'a sucked. I once had my tonsils out...”

Source : Jordan Sonnenblick (2011). “After Ever After”, p.54, Scholastic Inc.
“Good-bye to the lies of the poets. [Lat., Valeant mendacia vatum.]”

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