"And though it be their sin and vanity that is the cause [of lust], it is nevertheless your sin to be the unnecessary occasionâ€¦You must not lay a stumbling-block in their way, nor blow up the fire of their lustâ€¦You must walk among sinful persons as you would do with a candle among straw or gunpowder; or else you may see the flame which you did not foresee, when it is too late to quench it."

-- Richard Baxter

#Block Quotes #Blow Quotes #Vanity Quotes

“America, the land of the free, is turning itself into the land of the free ride. [U.S. airlines] are operating in protected markets. They are hoovering up public funds and they still can't make a profit.”
“Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.”
“Overall, my life has been one of survival and the decisions that I have made along the way, including my identification, have been to survive.”
“Outwardly I am 83, but inwardly I am every age, with the emotions and experience of each period.”
“When we inhale, the air comes into the inner world. When we exhale, the air goes out to the outer world. The inner world is limitless, and the outer world is also limitless. We say "inner world" or "outer world" but actually, There is just one whole world.”
“The nearest anyone can come to finding himself at any given age is to find a story that somehow tells him about himself.”

Source : Norman Maclean (2010). “Young Men and Fire”, p.145, University of Chicago Press
“There's 1,000 ways into addiction 1,000 ways out.”
“Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means.”

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