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To see a world in a grain of sand
and heaven in a wild flower
Hold infinity in the palms of your hand
and eternity in an hour
-- William Blake |
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I was angry with my friend I told my wrath my wrath did end; I was angry with my foe I told it not my wrath did grow.
-- William Blake |
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I have often wondered how anyone who does not read, by which I mean daily, having some book going all the time, can make it through life. Indeed if I were required to make a sharp division in the very nature of people, I would be tempted to make it there: readers and nonreaders of books… It is astonishing how the presence or absence of this habit so consistently characterizes an individual in other respects; it is as though it were a kind of barometer of temperament, of personality, even of character. Aside from that, for me it constituted something like sanity insurance.
-- William Brinkley |
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Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
-- William Faulkner |
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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the differences between what things are and what they out to be.
-- William Hazlitt |
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One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. I am then never less alone than when alone.
-- William Hazlitt |
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Be careful how you live; you will be the only Bible some people ever read.
-- William J. Toms |
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What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
-- William Least Heat Moon |
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This may not be the path for everyone. But the trust of which we speak is not an act of heroism. it is an act of surrender that makes the decision easier. It sounds unbelieveable, but I know it to be true. Leave the decision to God and you relieve yourself of the anxiety that comes from thinking that the choice is yours - the sneaking suspicion that you might have done better had you been a little more careful, a little luckier.
-- William McGurn |
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Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.
-- Wilma Rudolph |
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When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you sometimes find that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.
-- Winnie the Pooh |
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At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
-- Woodrow Wilson |
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