"One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."

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Source : The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

Henry Adams

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“Nothing hath wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal.”

Source : Isaac Barrow (1818). “The Theological Works of Isaac Barrow”, p.237
“To make the cunning artless, tame the rude, subdue the haughty, shake the undaunted soul; yea, put a bridle in the lion's mouth, and lead him forth as a domestic cur,--these are the triumphs of all-powerful beauty.”
“Hickory dickory dock my daddyâ€™s nuts from shell shock. Humpty dumpty thought he was wise till gas came along and burned out his eyes. A dillar a dollar a ten o clock scholar blow off his legs and then watch him holler. Rockaby baby in the tree top donâ€™t stop a bomb or youâ€™ll probably flop. Now I lay me down to sleep my bombproof cellars good and deep but if Iâ€™m killed before I wake remember god its for your sake amen.”
“A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work.”
“With every movie I do and every day I go to work, my goal is not just to reach for difference, but also figure out how to look at world and characters in a different way.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“If you are not willing to take the shame on yourself, you then let it remain on Jesus Christ. You must bear the reproach of your sinful state of indifference, or the cause of our Master must bear it.”
“We are and we know we are and we love to be it and know it.”
“I can do one or the other. Lovemaking or thinking. But not both at the same time.”

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