"One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment."

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Source : Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”

Merle Shain

#Learning Quotes #Years Quotes #Agony Quotes

“Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.”

Source : Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.169, Cambridge University Press
“Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.”
“Savor more; fix less. Laugh more; cry less. Anticipate positively more; anticipate negatively less. Just practice that and watch what happens.”
“There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.”
“I mainly let my imagination be my reality. Fantasy is my reality.”

Source : Interview with Felicia C. Sullivan, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 20, 2009.
“The first effect marriage had on me was to increase my lack of interest in sex.... Actually our marriage was a sort of friendship with sexual privileges.”
“In fact when I first got my Apple II the first thing I did was turn it on and off, on and off, just because I had the power to do so, which I'd never had on a computer before”
“If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day.”

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