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• Western society is a society of ever richer, more varied, more productive, more self-defined, and more satisfying lives; it is a society of boundless private charity; it is a society that broke, on behalf of merit, the seemingly eternal chains of station by birth.

  Ibn Warraq

  Self, Merit, Charity

  Source: counterjihadreport.com

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• The boundless stores of Providence are engaged for the support of the believer.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Support, Stores

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1869). “Gleanings Among the Sheaves”, p.71

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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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• Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.

  A. B. Simpson

  Thinking, Expectations, Asking

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• Wolf Boy is absolutely beguiling. Evan Kuhlman has boundless empathy for all his characters, and his wonderful protagonist Stephen is, in turn, boundlessly inventive. . . . This is an auspicious debut.

  Valerie Sayers

  Character, Boys, Empathy

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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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• In effect, a selfish and boundless thirst for power and material prosperity leads both to the misuse of available natural resources and to the exclusion of the weak and the disadvantaged.

  Pope Francis

  Selfish, Exclusion, Prosperity

  Pope Francis (2016). “Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion”, p.22, Orbis Books

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• I was much more into romance as a teenager and it's been a kind of new discovery for me to learn about sci-fi adventure. I think it's a really interesting genre and it's all about imagination. It's boundless what you can do in these stories.

  Olivia Wilde

  Teenager, Adventure, Thinking

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience.

  John Locke

  Knowledge, Character, Science

  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding bk. 2, ch. 1, sec. 2 (1690)

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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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• 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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• How Sweet the name of Jesus... the rock on which I build, my shield and hiding place, my never failing treasury, filled with boundless stores of grace.

  John Newton

  Sweet, Jesus, Rocks

  John Newton (1839). “The Works of the Rev. John Newton ... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, &c”, p.128

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• When I try to analyze my own cravings, motives, actions and so forth, I surrender to a sort of retrospective imagination which feeds the analytic faculty with boundless alternatives and which causes each visualized route to fork and re-fork without end in the maddeningly complex prospect of my past.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Past, Imagination, Trying

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.5, Hamilton Books

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• The Europeans are all deeply tainted with prejudices, both ecclesiastical and temporal, which they can never get rid of. They are all infected with episcopal and presbyterian creeds, and confessions of faith. They all believe that great Principle which has produced this boundless universe, Newton's universe and Herschell's universe, came down to this little ball, to be spit upon by Jews. And until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world.

  John Adams

  Believe, Principles, Prejudice

  John Adams (2004). “The Portable John Adams”, p.525, Penguin

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• From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all.

  Geoffrey S. Fletcher

  Civilization, Imagination, Parent

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Oh, happy he who still hopes he can emerge from Error's boundless sea! - Faust.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Errors, Sea, Faust

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• Lord, I am in this world to show Your mercy to others...For my part I will glorify You by making known how good You are to sinners, that Your mercy is boundless.

  Claude de la Colombiere

  World, Mercy, Lord

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• Her mighty lakes, like oceans of liquid silver; her mountains with their right aerial tints; her valleys, teeming with wild fertility; her tremendous cataracts, thundering in their solitudes; her boundless plains, waving with spontaneous verdure; her brought deep rivers, rolling in solemn silence to the ocean; her trackless forests, where vegetation puts forth all its magnificence; her skies, kindling waves in the magic of the summer clouds and glorious sunshine;-no, never need an American look beyond his own country for the sublime and beautiful of natural scenery.

  Washington Irving

  Beautiful, Summer, Country

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• [Mathematics] unceasingly calls forth the faculties of observation and comparison; one of its principal weapons is induction: it has frequent recourse to trial and verification; and it affords a boundless scope for the exercise of the highest efforts of imagination and invention.

  James Joseph Sylvester

  Exercise, Imagination, Effort

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• The land was then covered with morasses and forests, which spread to a boundless extent, whenever man has ceased to exercise his dominion over the earth.

  Edward Gibbon

  Exercise, Men, Land

  Edward Gibbon (1828). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.331

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• The potential of this nation is as boundless as the imagination and drive of the American people. . . . Quality management is not just a step. It must be a new style of working. Even a new style of thinking. The dedication to quality and excellence is more than good business; it's a way of life.

  George H. W. Bush

  Thinking, Dedication, People

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• It is the best thing to blame ourselves when people cannot get on well with us. Boundless charity necessarily includes all or it ceases to be boundless. We must be strict with ourselves and lenient with our neighbors. For we know not their difficulties and what they overcome.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  People, Overcoming, Charity

  Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and Non-Violence”, Clarendon Press

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• We need a boundless ethic, one which will include the animals, too. Until we extend the circle of his compassions to all living things, we will not find peace.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Animal, Compassion, Circles

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• I've always been interested in an idea of boundless love - an impersonal, big love.

  Cass McCombs

  Ideas, Bigs, Boundless Love

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Love may be boundless and abundant, but time isn't. Time is finite.

  Tim Harford

  May, Finite

  Source: www.npr.org

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