"Love masters agony; the soul that seemed Forsaken feels her present God again And in her Father's arms Contented dies away."

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Source : John Keble (1874). “The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays Throughout the Year”, p.82

John Keble

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“I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don't make enough money publishing to live on, to support themselves - people like Tobias Wolff, Anne Beattie, Amy Hempel, Stuart Dybek; a lot of short story writers, for one thing.”

Source : "Universities Gain Power In Literary World". Interview with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. December 12, 2010.
“Dad nods, looks me dead in the eyes; slowly and regretfully, he banishes all the smiling and joking from his face, and for once he's just my dad, watching his son who has fallen so low.”
“Vivacity is the health of the spirit.”
“The fundamental religious objection to the theory of evolution is not scientific but moral. [Fundamentalists believe that] evolutionary theory must be opposed because it leads to rampant immorality, on both the personal and political scales. The basic cause of this immorality is atheism.”
“We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past.”
“The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him.”
“Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.”
“How can such scary looking parents create something so cute?”

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