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• Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Self, House, Weakness

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”

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• There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

  Richard E. Byrd

  Strength, Weakness, Used

  Richard E. Byrd (2003). “Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure”, p.189, Island Press

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• The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Civilization, House, Becoming

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1884). “Lord Beaconsfield on the Constitution: "What is He?" and "A Vindication of the English Constitution"”

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• The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Men, Race, House

  Adam Weishaupt (2016). “Contra Mundum”, p.333, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Fear, Savages, Credit

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.36, 谷月社

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• One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.

  John Berger

  Home, Men, Dwelling Place

  John Berger (2014). “And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos”, p.78, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.

  Stephen Gardiner

  House, Age, Medieval

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The House: Its Origins and Evolution”, Ivan R Dee

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• Your mind must be at its best for God before it becomes His dwelling place.

  T. B. Joshua

  Dwelling Place, Mind

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• Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling; as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.

  Andre Gide

  Dwelling Place, Perfect, Attention

  "Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality". Book by André Gide, "Characters," p. 299, 1964.

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• Our intellect has achieved the most tremendous things, but in the meantime our spiritual dwelling has fallen into disrepair.

  Carl Jung

  Spiritual, Fallen, Intellect

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.16, Princeton University Press

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• You can't dwell on what happened. You can't live even a moment stewing in bitterness.

  Apolo Ohno

  Failure, Positivity, Ice Skating

  Apolo Ohno (2010). “Zero Regrets: Be Greater Than Yesterday”, p.280, Simon and Schuster

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• Keep your mind as much as you can from dwelling on your ailment. Think of strength and power and you will draw it to you. Think of health and you get it.

  Prentice Mulford

  Health, Thinking, Mind

  PRENTICE MULFORD (2017). “THE WHITE CROSS LIBRARY. YOUR FORCES, AND HOW TO USE THEM. VOL. VI.”, Lulu.com

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• A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself; not in his dwelling or position or external relations, but in his own essential character.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Character, Men, Self

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.15

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• ... for the modern soul, for which it is mere child's play to bridge oceans and continents, there is nothing so impossible as to find the contact with the souls dwelling just around the corner.

  Robert Musil

  Children, Ocean, Bridges

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• A Christian is the dwelling place of the living God. He created me, he chose me, He came to dwell in me, because he wanted me. Now that you have known how much God is in love with you it is but natural that you spend the rest of your life radiating that love.

  Mother Teresa

  Christian, Love You, Dwelling Place

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• The man who has made God his dwelling place will always have a safe habitation.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Dwelling Place, Safe

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• How will it be with us in the future life, when everything that has gratified us in this world: riches, honors, food and drink, dress, beautifully furnished dwellings, and all attractive objects-how will it be, I say, when all these things leave us-when they will all seem to us a dream, and when works of faith and virtue, of abstinence, purity, meekness, humility, mercy, patience, obedience, and others will be required of us?

  John of Kronstadt

  Dream, Humility, Honor

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• Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wantedto build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home

  Edvard Grieg

  Music, Art, Home

  Edvard Grieg, Richard Yates (2010). “Edvard Grieg: 16 Lyric Pieces”, p.36, Mel Bay Publications

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• Dwelling on pain, spending too much time immersed in it, tasting its flavors, fingering its textures--this makes it only more potent.

  Tayari Jones

  Pain, Texture, Flavor

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• There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people can face peril or misfortune with fortitude and buoyancy, but they bitterly resent being deceived or finding that those responsible for their affairs are themselves dwelling in a fool's paradise.

  Winston Churchill

  Mistake, People, Political

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Hinge of Fate”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The mystery of the Holy Night, which historically happened two thousand years ago, must be lived as a spiritual event in the 'today' of the Liturgy," the Pope clarified. "The Word who found a dwelling in Mary's womb comes to knock on the heart of every person with singular intensity this Christmas.

  Pope John Paul II

  Christmas, Spiritual, Heart

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• We cannot ultimately specify the grounds (either metaphysical or logical or empirical) upon which we hold that our knowledge is true. Being committed to such grounds, dwelling in them, we are projecting ourselves to what we believe to be true from or through these grounds. We cannot therefore see what they are. We cannot look at them because we are looking with them.

  Michael Polanyi

  Believe, Looks, Logical

  Michael Polanyi, Harry Prosch (2008). “Meaning”, p.61, University of Chicago Press

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• Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes.

  Martin Heidegger

  Home, Creating, Space

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• Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Land, Problem, Building

  "Materials Relating to the Revision of the Party Programme". Collected Works, Volume 24, p. 455 - 480, www.marxists.org.

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• When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both ... Our God is a house-hold God, as well as a heavenly one; He has an altar in every man's dwelling.

  John Ruskin

  Home, Men, House

  John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.340

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