"I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way."

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Source : Edgar Albert Guest, “Sermons We See”

Edgar Guest

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“The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks.”
“When you're playing a character in a book, there's already a lot of pressure because all of the millions of people who have read the series have been able to envision and become very attached to the characters.”
“Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a system disposed with order and design.”

Source : "A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy". Book by John Herschel, 1830.
“God loves us completely. And He knew us at our worst before He ever began to love us at all.”
“Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.”
“There's nothing to stop a man from writing unlessÂ that manÂ stops himself. If a man truly desires to write, then he will.Â Rejection and ridicule will only strengthen him. And the longerÂ he is held back the stronger he will become, like a mass of risingÂ water against a dam. There is no losing in writing, it will make your toes laughÂ as you sleep, it will make you stride like a tiger, it will fireÂ the eye and put you face to face with death. You will die a fighter,Â you will be honored in hell. The luck of the word. Go with it, send it.”
“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”

Source : A Sand County Almanac foreword (1949)
“Modelling is a silly, crazy business.”

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