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• The portion of some is to have their afflictions by drops, now one drop and then another; but the dregs of the cup, the wine of astonishment, like a sweeping rain that leaveth no food, did the Lord prepare to be my portion.

  Mary Rowlandson

  Rain, Wine, Suffering

  Mary Rowlandson (2014). “Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson”, p.105, Diderot Publishing

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• That I feel a desire, my friends, that we in this latter day of the world, in which light is fast spreading, that we should be willing to attend to those portions of the Scriptures of truth that direct us home to the foundation.

  Elias Hicks

  Home, Light, Desire

  Elias Hicks (1828). “The Quaker, Being a Series of Sermons by Members of the Society of Friends ...”, p.217

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• Food is a big bargain in America, and you can go to these places, we all like them, and you get big portions, and they taste good. But they're higher in fat than ever before. And same thing has happened, by the way, though, to school menus. A lot of school lunch menus have more fat and more sugar than ever before.

  William J. Clinton

  School, Lunch, America

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, 'I will compose poetry.' The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness...and the conscious portions of our natures are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Determination, Men, Wind

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2006). “A Defence of Poetry: an Essay: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.44, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• So often our sisters comfort others when their own needs are greater than those being comforted. That quality is like the generosity of Jesus on the cross. Empathy during agony is a portion of divinity!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Jesus, Agony, Generosity

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• The subconscious mind is more susceptible to influence by impulses of thought mixed with 'feeling' or emotion, than by those originating solely in the reasoning portion of the mind.

  Napoleon Hill

  Feelings, Mind, Emotion

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.174, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Reason and emotion counsel and supplement each other. Whoever heeds only the one, and puts aside the other, recklessly deprives himself of a portion of the aid granted us for the regulation of our conduct.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Reason And Emotion, Regulation, Granted

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• Toil is the portion of day, as sleep is that of night; but if there be one hour of the twenty-four which has the life of day without its labor, and the rest of night without its slumber, it is the lovely and languid hour of twilight.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Twilight, Sleep, Night

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1857). “The Complete Works of L. E. Landon ...”, p.205

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• If you could eat portions of pine trees, you could eliminate corn in many ways.

  Homaro Cantu

  Tree, Corn, Way

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• I come from a musical family. Mom was a piano teacher for a large portion of her life, and Dad is a saxophone hobbyist who grew up in England during the heyday of Tubby Hayes and Ronnie Scott. I started taking piano lessons from my Mom, but it's too easy to slack off with your parent, so she passed me on to a friend of hers, where I got more motivated to play music by playing pop hits and TV themes. I did some classical training, but I was always more into the really thematic stuff.

  Gerard Cox

  Mom, Teacher, Dad

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• The idea that the snapshot would be thought of as a cult or movement is very tiresome to me and, I'm sure, confusing to others. It's a swell word I've always liked. It probably came about because it describes a basic fact of photography. In a snap, or small portion of time, all that the camera can consume in breadth and bite and light is rendered in astonishing detail: all the leaves on a tree, as well as the tree itself and all its surroundings.

  Lee Friedlander

  Photography, Light, Ideas

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• You could increase farmworker wages significantly and not change the price to the consumer at all - for instance, if you redistribute how revenue is paid out across the food chain. Labor costs, particularly farm labor, is a tiny portion of the price we pay at the supermarket.

  Anna Lappe

  Cost, Wages, Pay

  "Anna Lappé Is Ready to Bust the Food Industry’s Biggest Myths". Interview with Tom Philpott, www.motherjones.com. October 2, 2013.

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• I spent a good portion of my life being unable to honor my feelings. When I started the process of having real friendships it was a huge change. I still struggle with it because it is not familiar ground.

  Bonnie St. John

  Real, Struggle, Feelings

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• It's hard to say that something is legitimate when a whole portion of the country can't vote and doesn't vote.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Vote, Hard

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. January 30, 2005.

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• Every morning, read seriously and reverently a portion of the Holy Scriptures, and acquaint yourselves with the history and doctrine thereof. It is a book full of light and wisdom, will make you wise to eternal life, and furnish you with directions and principles to guide and order your life safely and prudently.

  Matthew Hale

  Wise, Morning, Book

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• Every time you lose you die a little bit. You die inside...a portion of you. Not all of your organs. Maybe just your liver.

  George Allen

  Motivational, Football, Nfl

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• Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal father of light, and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties: revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God. . . .

  John Locke

  Truth, Father, Light

  'An Essay concerning Human Understanding' (1690) bk. 4, ch. 19, sect. 4

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• By prolonged and continued fellowship, the sheep who follow nearby enjoy the shepherd's presence and become his familiar companions. To those closest to him, he shares the choicest portions of the food he's gathered. These happy and content sheep are never in danger. Why? Because they are near the shepherd!

  Elizabeth George

  Christian, Inspiration, Sheep

  Elizabeth George (2009). “Quiet Confidence for a Woman's Heart: The Power of God's Restoration and Healing”, p.22, Harvest House Publishers

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• I think it's really important to have portion control. I don't believe in losing weight quickly.

  Billie Jean King

  Believe, Thinking, Important

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• If the earth must lose that great portion of its pleasantness which it owes to things that the unlimited increase of wealth and population would extirpate from it, for the mere purpose of enabling it to support a larger, but not a happier or a better population, I sincerely hope, for the sake of posterity, that they will be content to be stationary, long before necessity compels them to it.

  John Stuart Mill

  Long, Support, Earth

  John Stuart Mill (1848). “Principles of political economy with some of their applications to social philosophy”, p.317

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• A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, May, Might

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.120, Xist Publishing

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• The only true gifts are a portion of yourself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  True Gifts

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• The delightful study of the Psalms has yielded me boundless profit and ever-growing pleasure; common gratitude constrains me to communicate to others a portion of the benefit, with the prayer that it may induce them to search further for themselves.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Gratitude, Prayer, Benefits

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1870). “The Treasury of David: Spurgeon's Classic Work on the Psalms”, p.12, Kregel Academic

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• Give God the first part of every day. Give God the first day of every week. Give God the first portion of your income. Give God the first consideration in every decision. Give God the first place in your life.

  John C. Maxwell

  Giving, Decision, Income

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “Leadership Principles for Graduates: Create Success in Life One Day at a Time”, p.114, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process

  Will Durant

  Thinking, Molecules, Majestic

  Will Durant (1978). “Transition”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

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