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“It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and the mortification of the eyes. Just as there is nothing better than modesty to preserve devotion in a soul and to edify one's neighbor, so too, there is nothing worse than immodesty and licentious glances to expose a person to the danger of becoming lax and loose in morals.”
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“There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times.”
Source : Edward Gibbon (2000). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II: A.D. 395 to A.D. 1185 (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.253, Modern Library
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“I've definitely been in relationships where I've given too much, and I've been in relationships where I haven't given enough. I think it's a work in progress. I have to find that person where it clicks.”
Source : "Rachel Bilson on Hollywood Dating and Co-Stars". www.imdb.com. April 29, 2012.
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“I think walks are overrated unless you can run... If you get a walk and put the pitcher in a stretch, that helps. But the guy who walks and can't run, most of the time they're clogging up the bases for somebody who can run.”
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“He who considers too much will perform little.”
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“Grandmother Hannah comes to me at Pesach and when I am lighting the sabbath candles. The sweet wine in the cup has her breath.... a little winter no spring can melt.”
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“The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.”
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“Every concrete object has abstract value, is timeless in the dream parallel.”
Source : Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.523, New Directions Publishing