"A good man not only forbears those gratifications which are forbidden by reason and religion, but even restrains himself in unforbidden instances."

-- Francis Atterbury

#Sacrifice Quotes #Men Quotes #Good Man Quotes

“Women have a predestination to suffering.”
“Intuitive seeming is in my view an attraction to assent based on nothing more than understanding of the content that upon consideration attracts one's assent. But such understanding-based attraction can differ dramatically in epistemic quality. Some such attractions represent nothing more than superstition or bias absorbed from the culture, sans ratiocination.”
“I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.”
“I was a Scout years ago, before the movement started, when my father took me fishing, camping and hunting. Then I was sorry that more girls could not have what I had. When I learned of the movement, I thought, here is what I always wanted other girls to have.”
“Oddly-shaped is a term I've been using because it doesn't sound better or worse than anyone elses. All those other terms like "f**'ed up childhood" or "broken home," none of them sound good. Were our childhoods better or worse? I don't know. It's different.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together, with the author's discreet help.”
“Truly we are passing through disastrous times, when we may well make our own the lamentation of the Prophet: "There is no truth, and there is no mercy, and there is no knowledge of God in the land" (Hosea 4:1). Yet in the midst of this tide of evil, the Virgin Most Merciful rises before our eyes like a rainbow, as the arbiter of peace between God and man.”

Source : "A Treasury of Saints : 100 Saints : Their Lives and Times". Book by Malcolm Day, 2002.
“Carried by light, images remain while sensation is so evanescent as to be always beyond belief.”

Source : Rae Armantrout (2010). “Versed”, p.11, Wesleyan University Press

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