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Fanny Jackson Coppin
"Love wins when everything else will fail."
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Source : Fanny Jackson Coppin (1987). “Reminiscences of School Life, and Hints on Teaching”, Facsimiles-Garl
Fanny Jackson Coppin
#Winning Quotes
#Failing Quotes
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“The way I see it, as soon as I make a piece I’ve lost control of it.”
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“The passion, the competitiveness, the swinging for the fences, it adds up.”
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“I enjoy my work too much to force-feed myself with pressure.”
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“One of the great triumphs of the nineteenth century was to limit the connotation of the word "immoral" in such a way that, for practical purposes, only those were immoral who drank too much or made too copious love. Those who indulged in any or all of the other deadly sins could look down in righteous indignation on the lascivious and the gluttonous.... In the name of all lechers and boozers I most solemnly protest against the invidious distinction made to our prejudice.”
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“O virtue, I have followed you through life, and find you at last but a shade.”
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“There are so many angles to follow up: government incompetence, sophisticated charity scams, how insurance companies treat victims, construction of the levees, who will start ripping off the billions of dollars available in new contracts. Every single one of these stories is going to be a big one.”
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“I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.”
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“So shine on through these days we have to fill.”