"He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower, alike they're needed to the flower; and joys and tears alike are sent to give the soul its nourishment."

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Source : "He sendeth Sun, he sendeth Shower". "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 282, 1895.

Sarah Fuller Flower Adams

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“Do not fear death, but welcome it, since it too comes from nature. For just as we are young and grow old, and flourish and reach maturity, have teeth and a beard and grey hairs, conceive, become pregnant, and bring forth new life, and all the other natural processes that follow the seasons of our existence, so also do we have death. A thoughtful person will never take death lightly, impatiently, or scornfully, but will wait for it as one of life's natural processes.”
“The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.”
“To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering.”
“Anytime you run a gimmick offence, you're a little bit afraid - you're not sound in what you're doing in your base stuff.”
“Without security, civilization is cramped and dwarfed. Without security, there can be no freedom. Nor shall I say too much, when I declare that security, guarded of course by its offspring, freedom, is the true end and aim of government.”

Source : Charles Sumner (1856). “Last Three Speeches on Kansas Ad Freedom: Feb. 7th, March 6th, and May 19th & 20th, 1856”, p.619
“If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.”
“I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.”
“Jesus never called the poor 'lazy,' fought for tax cuts for the wealthiest Nazarenes or asked a leper for a copay.”

Source : "After Jon Stewart, Can We Find the Funny?" by Rev. Dr. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 7, 2015.

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