"Every fallen woman represents a man as guilty as herself, who escapes human detection, but whose soul lies open before God."

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Julia Ward Howe

#Lying Quotes #Men Quotes #Soul Quotes

“Fame is a lot of pressure, especially when you're responsible for your entire family. Financially, emotionally - everything.”
“Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure.”
“Perhaps we are looking at this from a wrong perspective; this search for the truth, the meaning of life, the reason of God. We all have this mindset that the answers are so complex and so vast that it is almost impossible to comprehend. I think, on the contrary, that the answers are so simple; so simple that it is staring us straight in the face, screaming its lungs out, and yet we fail to notice it. We're looking through a telescope, searching the stars for the answer, when the answer is actually a speck of dirt on the telescope lens.”
“The turn I made was not the one I planned. And I watched my social standing slip away from me, while I watched the bottle slowly take command.”
“Proportion ... You can't help thinking about it in these London streets, where it doesn't exist ... It's like listening to a symphony of cats to walk along them. Senseless discords and a horrible disorder all the way ... We need no barbarians from outside; they're on the premises, all the time.”
“To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.”

Source : Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.349, Penguin
“When your effort results in the desired effect, then you have worked.”
“If you don't control your life, someone else will.”

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