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• Let me rejoice in the light which Thou hast imparted; let me serve Thee with active zeal, humbled confidence, and wait with patient expectation for the time in which the soul which Thou receivest shall be satisfied with knowledge.

  Samuel Johnson

  Light, Expectations, Waiting

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay”, p.637

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• If thou desire to see thy child virtuous, let him not see his father's vices: thou canst not rebuke that in them, that they behold practised in thee; till reason be ripe, examples direct more than precepts: such as thy behaviour is before thy children's faces, such commonly is theirs behind their parents' backs.

  Francis Quarles

  Children, Father, Parent

  "Enchiridion". Book by Francis Quarles. Book 3, XVIII, 1640-1641.

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• God hath given to mankind a common library, His creatures; to every man a proper book, himself being an abridgment of all others. If thou read with understanding, it will make thee a great master of philosophy, and a true servant of the divine Author: if thou but barely read, it will make thee thine own wise man and the Author's fool.

  Francis Quarles

  Wise, Philosophy, Book

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.75

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• Thee will find out in time that I have a great love of professing vile sentiments, I don't know why, unless it springs from long efforts to avoid priggery.

  Bertrand Russell

  Spring, Long, Great Love

  Bertrand Russell, Nicholas Griffin (2002). “The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Private Years, 1884-1914”, p.46, Psychology Press

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• O SON OF MAN! My calamity is My providence, outwardly it is fire and vengeance, but inwardly it is light and mercy. Hasten thereunto that thou mayest become an eternal light and an immortal spirit. This is My command unto thee, do thou observe it.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Son, Men, Fire

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• Rise, heart; thy Lord is risen. Sing His praise Without delays, Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise With Him mayst rise: That, as His death calcined thee to dust, His life may make thee gold, and, much more, just.

  George Herbert

  Easter, Heart, Dust

  George Herbert, William Jerdan (1853). “The Works of the Rev. George Hebert”, p.41

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• Let it please thee to keep in order a moderate-sized farm, that so thy garners may be full of fruits in their season.

  Hesiod

  Order, May, Fruit

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• Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.

  Hesiod

  Men, Enemy, He Man

  Hesiod, Callimachus, Theognis, James Davies, Sir Charles Abraham Elton (1856). “The Works of Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theognis”, p.92, London : H.G. Bohn

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• Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom.

  Margaret Fuller

  Prayer, Suffering, Ransom

  Margaret Fuller, James Freeman Clarke, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Henry Channing (1852). “Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli”, p.315

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• Christ by His intercession is able to save thee beyond the horizon and largest compass of thy thoughts, even to the utmost. In danger Christ lashes us to Himself, as Alpine guides do when there is perilous ice to get over.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Ice, Horizon, Able

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 88), 1895.

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• Seraphs share with thee Knowledge; but Art, O Man, is thine alone!

  Friedrich Schiller

  Art, Men, Share

  Friedrich Schiller (1852). “Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life”, p.286

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• So, then, Oxford Street, stonyhearted stepmother, thou that listenest to the sighs of orphans, and drinkest the tears of children, at length I was dismissed from thee.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Children, Oxford, Tears

  'Confessions of an English Opium Eater' (1822) pt. 1

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• And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Death, Hands, May

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “Prayers from Plymouth Pulpit”, p.295

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• Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose feet the worlds divide?

  Oscar Wilde

  Queens, Men, Sea

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.136, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Go little book, thy self present, As child whose parent is unkent: To him that is the president Of noblesse and of chivalry, And if that Envy bark at thee, As sure it will, for succour flee.

  Edmund Spenser

  Children, Book, Self

  1579 The Shepherd's Calendar, 'To His Book'.

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• Trust in thine own untried capacity As thou wouldst trust in God himself. Thy soul Is but an emanation from the whole. Thou dost not dream what forces lie in thee, Vast and unfathomed as the grandest sea.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Confidence, Dream, Lying

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.567, Delphi Classics

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• Imagination helps you to recognize the reality of facts, but then to go beyond them, to penetrate beneath them, to rise above them in your search for creative answers to problems. Imagination "stirs up the gift of God in thee." Through your imagination you touch and express the inspiration of the Infinite. Imagination, in the words of Shakespeare, "gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name." You reach into the heavens to grasp an idea, then you bring it down to earth and make it work.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Art, Inspiration, Reality

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• Repeat not the manner of a flirtation; for lo, all the world shall hear of it, and women will taunt thee.

  Gelett Burgess

  Dating, World, Taunting

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• Thou shalt rest sweetly if thy heart condemn thee not.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Heart, Ifs, Conscience

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Saint Augustine, Thomas A'Kempis (2006). “The Confessions of St. Augustine, Including the Imitation of Christ”, p.254, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is (to describe it figuratively) as if an author were to make a slip of the pen, and as if this clerical error became conscious of being such. Perhaps this was no error but in a far higher sense was an essential part of the whole exposition. It is, then, as if this clerical error were to revolt against the author, out of hatred for him, were to forbid him to correct it, and were to say, "No, I will not be erased, I will stand as a witness against thee, that thou art a very poor writer."

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Art, Errors, Hatred

  Soren Kierkegaard (2013). “The Wisdom of Kierkegaard”, p.260, Simon and Schuster

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• The heart of man is restless until he finds rest in Thee.

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, Men, Memorial

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• My country tears of thee.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Country, America, Tears

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1958). “A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems”, p.57, New Directions Publishing

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• Nay, do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flattered?

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Advancement, May

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Hamlet”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• Send home my long strayed eyes to me, Which (Oh) too long have dwelt on thee.

  John Donne

  Home, Eye, Long

  John Donne (1996). “Selected Poetry”, p.107, Oxford University Press, USA

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• There were several points where I would kind of turn to the book and say, "Get thee behind me." I don't think real novelists do that. But I make a distinction between prose that's very efficiency-minded (like, the minimum I can get away with), versus loosening the screws and letting the words spill out beautifully and so on.

  George Saunders

  Real, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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