"To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life."

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Source : "Pictures of Private Life, Vol. 2". Book by Sarah Stickney Ellis, 1835.

Sarah Ellis

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“I had gone into the hospital with the stupid notion that its primary object was the care and comfort of the sick and wounded. It was long after that I learned that a vast majority of all benevolent institutions are gotten up to gratify the aesthetic tastes of the public; exhibit the wealth and generosity of the founders, and furnish places for officers. The beneficiaries of the institutions are simply an apology for their existence, and having furnished that apology, the less said about them the better.”
“People come here penniless but not cultureless. They bring us gifts. We can synthesize the best of our traditions with the best of theirs. We can teach and learn from each other to produce a better America...”

Source : Mary Pipher (2003). “The Middle of Everywhere”, p.371, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I think we have to show some pride in the jersey that we are wearing, and canâ€™t quit.”
“To become who we are as creatures made in the image and likeness of God, we have to be nothing and everything at once, since this is what God is. ... If we accept who we are, we are manifesting God and radiating Christ. The latter unfolding of the divine life within us does not need to go anywhere or do anything special.”
“Death mattered not -- It was a mere puncutation”

Source : Nathan Irvin Huggins (2011). “Black Odyssey”, p.13, Vintage
“I've always thought that I'm kind of a cross between a young Bill Clinton and Lyle Lovett. And I just want to say I'm proud of that. Those are two good looking guys.”
“The focus should not be on talking. Talk is cheap. It must be on action.”
“I married somebody who likes the way I look. If I changed my hair every year, and I reinvented myself in time-honoured pop fashion, I think understandably the person I'm married to would grow slightly sick of me.”

Source : "The talking Cure". Interview with Zoe Williams, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2004.

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