"There is but one fountain of comfort for a man drawing near to his end, and that is the Bible. ...All comfort from any other source is a house built upon sand."

-- J. C. Ryle

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“So anyway, I've learned a lot about myself just in terms of acting but just work ethic and interesting things like full-page monologues or talking straight into camera, which I had never gotten to do before.”

Source : Betty Ford, Chris Chase (1978). “The times of my life”, Ballantine Books
“But before we die, how shall we live? I say with hope and dignity; and if premature death is the result, that death has a meaning reactionary suicide can never have. It is the price of self-respect.”
“For them (the peoples of the Soviet Union) We cherish the warmest paternal affection. We are well aware that not a few of them groan beneath the yoke imposed on them by men who in very large part are strangers to the real interests of the country. We recognize that many others were deceived by fallacious hopes. We blame only the system with its authors and abettors who considered Russia the best field for experimenting with a plan elaborated years ago, and who from there continue to spread it from one of the world to the other.”
“When mother is happy, family is happy. When family is happy, nation is happy.”
“No pen, no words, no image can express to you the loveliness of my only, only Lord Jesus.”

Source : Samuel Rutherford (1867). “Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford”, p.344
“The artist's view of the world and mankind is that which seeks as far as possible to lose itself in its object, illuminating it not from the outside by some light foreign to it, but from within, deriving light from its own core.”

Source : Egon Friedell (2008). “A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vol. 1: Renaissance and Reformation”, p.34, Transaction Publishers
“Minds, like parachutes, work only when open.”
“Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.”

Source : 'The Concept of Mind' (1949) introduction

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