"No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung,Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.Majestic silence."

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Source : Reginald Heber, Amelia Heber (1830). “The Life of Reginald Heber, D.D. Lord Bishop of Calcutta: With Selections from His Correspondence, Unpublished Poems, and Private Papers : Together with a Journal of His Tour in Norway, Sweden, Russia, Hungary and Germany, and a History of the Cosacks ; in Two Volumes”, p.30

Reginald Heber

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“I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future.”

Source : "American Islamic Lobby Gets Out The Vote" by Art Moore, www.wnd.com. February 21, 2002.
“You can only go so far in analyzing each and every one person's opinion because they are often quite different. You just have to trust your instincts and hope that if someone doesn't like your idea, you can prove them wrong in the final process. In the end, you can please some of the people some of the time, but that's about all you can do.”

Source : "Featured Filmmaker: Bryan Singer" By Stax, www.ign.com. December 9, 2002.
“True compassion is more than throwing a coin to a beggar. It demands of our humanity that if we live in a society that produces beggars, we are morally commanded to restructure that society.”
“For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of criss-crossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible.”

Source : Philip Kapleau (1970). “The three pillars of Zen: teaching, practice, and enlightenment”, Beacon Press (MA)
“When I was in middle school, I liked to make cartoons.”
“Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.”

Source : William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser (1938). “Prefaces and prologues to famous books”
“I have priorities. Maintaining my daughter is my first.”
“Other actors like to rehearse on film-they like 30 or 40 takes. When you get an actor like that, it becomes difficult for me because I'm ready to quit after number two.”

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