"What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear. What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer."

-- Joseph M. Scriven

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“So far as love or affection is concerned, psychologists have failed in their mission. The little we know about love does not transcend simple observation, and the little we write about it has been written better by poets and novelists.”

Source : Harry Frederick Harlow (1986). “From Learning to Love: The Selected Papers of H.F. Harlow”, Praeger Publishers
“Woman is the most precious gift known to man,”

Source : "Rick Ross ‘U.O.E.N.O.’ Date Rape Lyrics: Rapper Responds To Controversy", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2013.
“Play always as if in the presence of a master.”

Source : Robert Schumann (1860). “Advice to Young Musicians”, p.10
“Something new has taken place in the past five to eight years. Technologists are providing almost religious visions, and their ideas are resonating in some ways with the same idea of the Rapture.”
“Now as the Paradisiacal pleasures of the Mahometans consist in playing upon the flute and lying with Houris, be mine to read eternal new romances of Marivaux and Crebillon.”
“Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed - but hate these things in yourself, not in another.”
“If I have a choice between putting my kids to bed and going to a party, I'll put my kids to bed. If I have a choice of going to a restaurant or having friends round, I'll have friends round. Every time.”
“On one thing professionals and amateurs agree: mothers can't win.”

Source : Margaret Drabble (2013). “The Middle Ground”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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