"Where God works, He works with men that work."

-- Charles Spurgeon

“Knowledge counts but common sense matters.”

Source : LouAnne Johnson (1995). “Dangerous Minds”, p.103, Macmillan
“Courage is required to make an initial thrust towards ones coveted goal, But even greater courage is called for when one stumbles and must make a second effort to achieve.”
“Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you.”

Source : Gustav Holst, Michael Short, William Gillies Whittaker (1974). “Gustav Holst, letters to W. G. Whittaker”, University of Glasgow French and German Publications
“All gods are tricksters, and war gods worst of any.”
“Negro servants have been smuggling odds and ends out of white homes for generations, and white people have been delighted to have them do it, because it has assuaged a dim guilt and testified to the intrinsic superiority of white people.”
“If you can get a spiritual connection without going to church, why go to church?.”
“Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so many grievances in the world.”

Source : Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.15, Macmillan
“Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?”

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