"We see things as we are, not as they are."

Rosten, Leo on appearance
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"Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance"

Beecher, Henry Ward on appearance
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"You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are."

Cohen, Herb on appearance
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"He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on writers and writing
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"Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on thoughts and thinking   

"The idol is the measure of the worshipper."

Lowell, James Russell on idols
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"However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on failure
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"Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them."

Lorimer, Geroge on fools and foolishness   

"Difficulties are things that show a person what they are."

Epictetus on difficulties
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"Never excuse, never explain, never complain."

Motto on complaints and complaining
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"Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me."

Donne, John on infatuation
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"Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel."

Luther, Martin on churches
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"You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you."

Luther, Martin on faith
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"When I am angry I can pray well and preach well."

Luther, Martin on anger
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"Christians are rare people on earth."

Luther, Martin on christians and christianity
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"I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man."

Moody, Dwight L. on christians and christianity   

"By the grace of God, I'll be that man."

Moody, Dwight L. on dedication   

"Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me."

Moody, Dwight L. on example
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"Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand."

Acquinas, Saint Thomas on faith
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"Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago."

Roberts, B.H. on faith
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"Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding."

Luther, Martin on faith   

"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."

Luther, Martin on belief
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"Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times."

Luther, Martin on faith
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"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet."

Shakespeare, William on love
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"To me, the sea is like a person -- like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there."

Ederle, Gertrude on sea
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"Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust."

Dickinson, Emily on death
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"Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part."

Pope, Alexander on death
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"Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going."

Williams, Tennessee on memory
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"The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory."

Proverb, Chinese on memory   

"I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design."

Billings, Josh on poverty and the poor   

"The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from."

Fowler, Gene on writers and writing
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"The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can."

Smith, Sydney on action
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"Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you."

Moore, Mary Tyler on pain
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"Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness."

Gandhi, Mahatma on prayer
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"There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers."

Teresa of Avila, St. on prayer
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"The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer."

Augustine, St. on desire
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"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation."

Buck, Pearl S. on youth
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"Things are beautiful if you love them."

Anouilh, Jean on beauty
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"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."

Gandhi, Mahatma on prayer
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