"The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure."

-- Sydney J. Harris

#Education Quotes #College Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Most people if I like their music, I can get good pictures.”
“There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must forgive in order to understand. Until you forgive, you defend yourself against the possibility of understanding. ... If you forgive, he would say, you may indeed still not understand, but you will be ready to understand, and that is the posture of grace.”
“I'm fascinated by Bollywood.”
“The truth now.He was disappointed in human beings.He had seen too many betrayals,too many pitiful weaknesses,too much greed for money and fame.The falseness between lovers,husbands and wifes,fathers,sons,mothers,daughters”
“We ought all to make an effort to act on our first thoughts and let our unspoken gratitude find expression. Then there will be more sunshine in the world, and more power to work for what is good.”
“If any man should ask me what is the first, second, and third part of being a Christian, I must answer 'Action!'”
“If I know that I shall be as an angel, and more; if I shall behold all God has made; if he shall own me for his son and exalt me to honor in his presence, I shall not fear to die, nor shall I dread the grave where Christ once lay.”

Source : Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”
“Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.”

Source : Edmund Pendleton (1967). “The Letters and Papers of Edmund Pendleton, 1734-1803”

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