"God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrust the thing we have prayed for in our face, like a gauntlet with a gift in it."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on prayer
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"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

Wilde, Oscar on education
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"A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."

Wilde, Oscar on enemies
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"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."

Wilde, Oscar on excellence
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"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing."

Wilde, Oscar on experience
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"Where there is no extravagance there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding."

Wilde, Oscar on extravagance
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"Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life."

Wilde, Oscar on failure
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"I can believe anything provided it is incredible."

Wilde, Oscar on faith
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"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."

Wilde, Oscar on fashion
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"None of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves."

Wilde, Oscar on faults
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"Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much."

Wilde, Oscar on forgiveness
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"An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship."

Wilde, Oscar on friends and friendship
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"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."

Wilde, Oscar on genius
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"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."

Wilde, Oscar on america
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"The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered."

Wilde, Oscar on duty
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"Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself."

Wilde, Oscar on duty
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"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

Wilde, Oscar on dream
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"Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered."

Teresa of Avila, St. on prayer
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"There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on christians and christianity   

"The fly that does not want to be swatted is safest if it sits on the fly-swat."

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"Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."

Bierce, Ambrose on abstinence
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"Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature ."

Dickens, Charles on abstinence
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"Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity."

Wilde, Oscar on abstinence
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"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."

Wilde, Oscar on advice
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"For he who lives more lives than one: More deaths than one must die."

Wilde, Oscar on death
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"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people."

Wilde, Oscar on democracy
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"She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman."

Wilde, Oscar on desperation
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"Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography."

Wilde, Oscar on disciples
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"Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation."

Wilde, Oscar on discontent
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"Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer."

Wilde, Oscar on dream
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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

Wilde, Oscar on goals
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