"To act well in this world, one must sacrifice all personal desires. The people who become missionaries of religious thought have no other Fatherland than this thought. Man is not on Earth merely to be happy, nor even simply to be honest. He is here to realize great things for humanity, to attain nobility, and to surmount the vulgarity of nearly every individual."

-- Ernest Renan

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“The English learned, in my view, how to use harmony much earlier than the French or the Italians, or the Germans.”
“I'm proud of being a mother, a wife, a daughter, and a sister, and a lover and a friend We're all God's children.”
“Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.”

Source : Song: Rainy Day People, Album: Cold on the Shoulder, 1975
“You know, when you do standup there are certain requirements that you have to do like you have to go on stage and when you get introduced you have to say "Hey,how ya doin'? How are ya?" I couldn't do it. It was false.”
“Beauty might bring happiness, but happiness always brings beauty.”
“There are legions of [Aquarian, New Age, One World Religion] conspirators. They are in corporations, universities, and hospitals, on the faculties of public schools, in factories and doctors offices, in state and federal agencies, on city councils, and the White House staff, in state legislatures, in volunteer organizations, in virtually all arenas of policy making in the country.”
“Don't you know the man whose life you spare will always hate you?”

Source : Lian Hearn (2008). “Across the Nightingale Floor: Tales of the Otori”, p.99, Pan Macmillan
“Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as much daily solicitude in cherishing as exotic fruits and flowers; the vices and passions (which I am afraid are the natural product of the soil) demand perpetual weeding. Add to this the search after knowledge. . . and the longest life is too short.”

Source : Mary Wortley Montagu (2011). “The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.229, Cambridge University Press

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