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“Don’t portray yourself as who you want to be. Portray yourself as who you are.”
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“Ministry that costs nothing, accomplishes nothing.”
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“Live as with God; and, whatever be your calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly qualify you in it.”
Source : Horace Bushnell (1858). “Sermons for the new life”, p.49
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“The fool wonders, the wise man asks.”
Source : Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5029, Delphi Classics
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“I really can't believe what a state the Pyramids are in. I thought they had flat rendered sides, but when you get up close, you see how they are just giant boulders balanced on top of each other, like a massive game of Jenga that has got out of hand.”
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“We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.”
Source : 'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 1, sect. 15
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“The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention. I don't say this without reckoning in the sorrow, the worry, the many diminishments. But surely it is then that a person's character shines or glooms.”
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“In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.”
Source : John James Ingalls (1907). “Selections from the Writings of John J. Ingalls”
