"It requires as much reflection and wisdom to know what is not to be put into a sermon, as what is."

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Lord David Cecil

#Reflection Quotes

“Man is the Child of his Environment”
“Sometimes the first step is the hardest: coming up with an idea. Coming up with an idea should be like sitting on a pin-it should make you jump up and do something.”
“I might never breathe again once he walked away from me.”
“Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.”
“Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.”
“If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the strong tendency that a peculiar aptitude towards the same branch would be found among some of his descendants.”
“The mists of nostalgia color memory.”
“I try to ï¬nd clues in the documented record - from the subject's own testimony, from the testimony of other people. When you're writing a biography, you're trying to understand your subject in the same way that you try to understand one of your friends, and that effort at understanding is always very imperfect.”

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