"Don't promise twice what you can do at once."

-- Cato the Younger

#Promise Quotes #Can Do Quotes

“The bashful beggar has an empty purse.”
“The inherent non-linearity of the digital allows for more input from others, including the subject and reader as collaborators. The top-down, bedtime-style story is of limited use. A non-linear narrative that allows for increased complexity and depth, and encourages both subject and reader to have greater involvement, will eventually emerge more fully from the digital environment. This, in a sense, is the more profound democratization of media.”
“Everything in the phenomenal universe is straight line and circle. The horizon, our heads, arms, electrons, the oceans, planets and stars. Their principle function is to radiate. The task of the human being is also to radiate.”
“With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always enjoyed much cheerfulness before men; but I have at the same time laboured incessantly to cultivate the deepest humiliation before God.”

Source : Charles Simeon, William Carus, Charles Pettit McIivaine (Bp.), Daniel Wilson (1847). “Memoirs of the life of the Rev. Charles Simeon ...: with a selection from his writings and correspondence”, p.518
“I wondered â€“ would a bullet through my temple actually kill me or just leave a really big mess for me to clean up? (Jacob)”
“Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.”

Source : E.L. Konigsburg (2011). “Silent to the Bone”, p.87, Simon and Schuster
“A Christian can believe that God 'ordained' the 'powers that be' - including political rulers and slaveholders - for purposes too deep for us to understand fully, and that while they last we must provisionally accept them; but that they were not meant to last forever.”
“Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?”

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