"O, beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties, Above the fruited plain...."

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Source : "America the Beautiful" (song) (1893)

Katharine Lee Bates

#Beautiful Quotes #4th Of July Quotes #Sky Quotes

“It is in the area of feeling that religion enters the heart and is expressed by man.”
“I'd rather believe in reincarnation than hell. The idea of an afterlife is much so more tolerable when returning is an option.”

Source : Deborah Feldman (2012). “Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots”, p.105, Simon and Schuster
“Starting in 1994, with the Republican election of Congress, I think [Rush] Limbaugh made a difference in electing the Republican majority. In the following three elections, he made the difference holding the majority. And in 2000, in the presidential race in Florida, he was the difference between Gore and Bush winning Florida, and thus the Presidency.”
“I think I have been able to eliminate the idea of a third person: the Intruding Photographer.”
“The Jews emerge into history, not a nation of keen spiritual aspirations and altruistic ethics, but that pagan people, worshipping rocks, sheep and cattle, and spirits of caves and wells, of whom the Old Testament, tending towards its higher ideal, gives fragmentary but convincing evidence.”
“The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.”
“To admire nothing, (as most are wont to do;) Is the only method that I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 9), 1922.
“I liked you the first time I saw you. You were sitting on the floor surrounded by books, and you looked up when I opened the door and smiled right at me. It felt like you had been waiting for me, like you were welcoming me home.”

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