"Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world."

-- William E. Gladstone

#Men Quotes #Sorrow Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“Pick a movement, pick a revolution and join it.”
“Live with your century; but do not be its creature.”
“The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.”
“An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.”
“I love to live and I live to love.”
“If Jeff Mogil and Ron Melzack are right about genetics and pain, fifty years from now, generic Tylenol tablets will seem as quaint to us as a bottle of sarsaparilla tonic. Instead, we'll take our genotype ID bracely to the local genopharmacologist to order some bespoke pharmaceuticals. Or we may rise at four A.M. to meditate on the part of our nature that is painful and feel better for it. Along with social insurance, we'll carry geno-cards that list our predispositions: photosensitivity, osteoporosis, and poor response to codeine.”
“If the church is to be missionary, she must be spiritual; and if the church is to be spiritual, she must be missionary.”
“Talent is like a seed which needs fertile soil. There is no less talent now, there is less fertile soil to nourish it.”

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