"It is day by day that we go forward; today we are as we were yesterday and tomorrow we shall be like ourselves today. So we go on without being aware of it, and this is one of the miracles of Providence that I so love."

-- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

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“He that would relish success to a purpose should keep his passions cool, and his expectations low; and then it is possible that his fortune might exceed his fancy; for an advantage always rises by surprise; and is almost always doubled by being unlooked for.”

Source : Jeremy COLLIER (the Nonjuror.), J. E. (1838). “Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of “Sir William Jones's Discourses,” etc. [The editor's preface signed: J. E., i.e. James Elmes.]”, p.117
“In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.”
“After Vietnam, the Democrats became fundamentally the anti-military as a party.”
“For it is the bitter grief of theology and its blessed task, too, always to have to seek (because it does not clearly have present to it at the time)...always providing that one has the courage to ask questions, to be dissatisfied, to think with the mind and heart one ACTUALLY has, and not with the mind and heart one is SUPPOSED TO have.”
“I used to make my own food and ate on my own in my room.”
“Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat.”
“Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.”

Source : Kenneth B. Clark (1988). “Prejudice and Your Child”, p.6, Wesleyan University Press
“Really. I'd love to be spoiled on by others.”

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