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John Woolman
"To Turn all the treasures we possess into the channel of universal love becomes the business of our lives." --
Source : John Woolman (1837). “A Journal of the Life, Gospel Labours, and Christian Experiences, of that Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, John Woolman”, p.326
John Woolman
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“You just never know when you're going into eternity.”
“If I could go into the woods and kill a bear myself, I'd wear it proudly as a trophy.”
“The evil-doer mourns in the next; he mourns in both. He mourns and suffers when he sees the evil of his own work.”
“Biographers, the quick in pursuit of the dead, research, organize, fill in, contradict, and make in this way a sort of completed picture puzzle with all the scramble turned into a blue eye and the parts of the right leg fitted together.”
Source : Elizabeth Hardwick (1998). “Sight-readings: American Fictions”, Random House Incorporated
“People go through three conversions: The conversion of their head, their heart, and their pocketbook. Unfortunately, not all at the same time.”
“I remember the day I started school; my mother's tears as I skipped away; birthdays with candles on the cake, too soon too many abandoned for the mess they made.”
“The rain drags Black Sun down, but the rain dried by White Moon.”
“The Gatsby that I remember reading when I was 15 years old in junior high school was far different from the Gatsby I read as an adult.”