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• The boundless capacity of the African American spirit in this country to say Hallelujah anyhow, to use our joy as a weapon, to use our creativity as a weapon, to use our moral clarity and our deep experience as a weapon not just to save Black people but to save all of these people.

  Van Jones

  Country, Creativity, People

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Jobs, Ocean, People

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• A good teacher, after all, wields the authority of a parent with none of the psychological baggage. The best of them are semi-mysterious figures whose wisdom seems boundless and whose approval helps us discover who we are.

  Steve Almond

  Teacher, Parent, Who We Are

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• The scope of art is practically boundless; it does not begin and end with the painting of pictures and the modeling of statues; where there is room for workmanship there is room for it.

  Lewis Foreman Day

  Art, Doe, Rooms

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• This is a common experience in my traveling. I plod along, thinking what a miserable world this is and what miserable fellows we that inhabit it, wondering what it is tempts men to live in it; but anon I leave the towns behind and am lost in some boundless heath, and life becomes gradually more tolerable, if not even glorious.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Home, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1962). “Journal”

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• The best answer to all objections urged against prayer is the fact that man cannot help praying; for we may be sure that that which is so spontaneous and ineradicable in human nature has its fitting objects and methods in the arrangements of a boundless Providence.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Prayer, Men, Answers

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• Listen to the Lord's appeal:...Come, then, return to me and learn to know me as your father, who repays good for evil, love for injury, and boundless charity for piercing wounds.

  Peter Chrysologus

  Father, Evil Love, Piercings

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• What are we when there is no one doing anything, no one attaining anything, no place to go? There is no place to go. The whole foundation is already here in each one of us. It is the same in all of us. There is only one foundation, which is presence, wholeness, boundless love.

  Toni Packer

  Love, Foundation, Places To Go

  Toni Packer (2002). “The Wonder of Presence: And the Way of Meditative Inquiry”, p.30, Shambhala Publications

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• We have the power to make reality. Why make it inside boundaries, when the boundless is so near?

  Deepak Chopra

  Reality, Boundaries

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from May 12, 2011

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• There's no doubt that there will be many trials and tribulations along the way in taming space for the benefit of all, unmasking its truths and using the boundless resources available to us. Taking a chance allows us to seek new horizons -- and we all benefit from being horizon hunters.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Space, Doubt, Hunters

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• Anyone who has attempted to create knows the hellishness of it, which consists in the final inescapability from it. Knows that anything, however deadly humdrum to drug the senses, is preferable to it. Knows the gigantic effort to get started on the boundless, unwieldy, shapeless material; the forest of hesitations; of what to keep and what to throw out; the running-out terror and reluctance in one of finishing.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Running, Creativity, Effort

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• Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth is uniform and narrow; it constantly exists, and does not seem to require so much an active energy, as a passive aptitude of the soul in order to encounter it. But error is endlessly diversified; it has no reality, but is the pure and simple creation of the mind that invents it. In this field the soul has room enough to expand herself, to display all her boundless faculties, and all her beautiful and interesting extravagancies and absurdities.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Beautiful, Simple, Reality

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• This glorious union shall not perish! Precious legacy of our fathers, it shall go down honored and cherished to our children. Generations unborn shall enjoy its privileges as we have done; and if we leave them poor in all besides, we will transmit to them the boundless wealth of its blessings!

  Edward Everett

  Children, Father, Blessing

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• I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Sea, Heaven, World

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• Good Heaven, whose darling attribute we find is boundless grace, and mercy to mankind, abhors the cruel.

  John Dryden

  Grace And Mercy, Heaven, Attributes

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.187

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• Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into comparisons and metaphor. Sprightly natures, full of fire, and whom a boundless imagination carries beyond all rules, and even what is reasonable, cannot rest satisfied even with hyperbole. As for the sublime, it is only great geniuses and those of the very highest order that are able to rise to its height.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Fall, Men, Order

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• A boundless continent, Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night Starless expos'd.

  John Milton

  Dark, Night, World

  John Milton (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...”, p.206

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• The beginner's mind is the mind of compassion. When our mind is compassionate, it is boundless.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Compassion, Mind, Beginners

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.2, Shambhala Publications

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• The soul on earth is an immortal guest,
  Compelled to starve at an unreal feast:
  A spark, which upward tends by nature's force:
  A stream diverted from its parent source;
  A drop dissever'd from the boundless sea;
  A moment, parted from eternity;
  A pilgrim panting for the rest to come;
  An exile, anxious for his native home.

  Hannah More

  Home, Sea, Parent

  Hannah More, “Reflections Of King Hezekiah, In His Sickness”

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• The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.

  Ouida

  Genius, Arrogant, Scorn

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.317, Ouida

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• Heavenly Father is more liberal in His views, and boundless in His mercies, than we are ready to believe or receive.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Father, Believe, Views

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• 'Nature is conquered by obedience' - and her resistless energies are at our bidding, as soon as we, by knowledge, work with them and not against them. We can choose out of her boundless stores the forces that serve our purpose in momentum, in direction, and so on, and their very invariability becomes the guarantee of our success.

  Annie Besant

  Karma, Energy, Bidding

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.959, Jazzybee Verlag

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• All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Moral, All Things

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1081, Delphi Classics

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• Eternal God,
  lead me now
  out of the familiar setting
  of my doubts and fears,
  beyond my pride
  and my need to be secure
  into a strange and graceful ease
  with my true proportions
  and with yours;
  that in boundless silence
  I may grow
  strong enough to endure
  and flexible enough to share
  your grace.

  Ted Loder

  Strong, Pride, Silence

  Ted Loder “Guerrillas of Grace: Prayers for the Battle”, Augsburg Books

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• Meiklejohn's position is that free speech in a democracy is not an absolute flowing from the boundless source of some presumed 'natural right.' It is a practical necessity of 'self-government by universal suffrage,' for if the citizens are not permitted to argue out the issues of government, how can they be what they must be in a democracy - the rulers as well as the ruled?

  Max Lerner

  Issues, Government, Self

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