"There is a great deal too much in the world, of the "heavenly-mindedness" which expends itself in the contemplation of the joys of paradise, which performs no duty which it can shirk, and whose constant prayer is to be lifted in some overwhelming flood of Divine grace, and be carried, amidst the admiration of men and the jubilance of angels, to the very throne of God."

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Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 502), 1895.

Henry Clay Trumbull

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“How can you live without trusting people? There are more people who are good than people who are bad!”

Source : Kyung-Sook Shin (2011). “Please Look After Mom”, p.86, Vintage
“Thus have you the way of making Conserves, the way of keeping of them is in Earthen pots.”

Source : Nicholas Culpeper (2006). “Culpeper's Complete Herbal & English Physician”, p.206, Applewood Books
“Remember the people you address are selfish, as we all are. They care nothing about your interests or profit. They seek service for themselves”

Source : Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Claude C. Hopkins, John E. Kennedy, Albert D. Lasker “Scientific Advertising Origins”, Lulu.com
“The Western public should learn and remember one essential thing about China: no matter what European and North American propaganda barks about the People's Republic, China is much more "democratic" than the West. It is democratic in its own way.”

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“The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.”
“The great thing about fantasy is that you can drag dreams and longings and hopes and fears and strivings out of your subconscious and call them 'magic' or 'dragons' or 'faeries' and get to know them better. But then I write the stuff. Obviously I'm prejudiced.”
“The upshot is that most philosophers of biology now hold that biological properties supervene on physical properties (where supervenience is taken to include some kind of "in virtue of" relation), and that fitness and other biological properties are not identical with physical properties.”
“I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage,”

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