"You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into him chasing the money changers out of the temple."

Hemingway, Ernest on criticism
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"My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements."

Hemingway, Ernest on grammar
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"Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones."

Hemingway, Ernest on exaggeration
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"As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary."

Hemingway, Ernest on age and aging
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"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem."

Rubin, Theodore I. on problems
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"It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear."

Harriman, Edward H. on vision
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"Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved-to write a book."

Gibbon, Edward on learning   

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"It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination. If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed."

Dillard, Annie on faith
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"I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value, are ubiquitous and blind, that life itself is so astonishingly cheap, that nature is as careless as it is bountiful, and that with extravagance goes a crushing waste that will one day include our own cheap lives."

Dillard, Annie on fertility   

"I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too. I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead am wondering awed about on a splintered wreck I've come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air, whose bloodied and scarred creatures are my dearest companions, and whose beauty bats and shines not in its imperfections but overwhelmingly in spite of them..."

Dillard, Annie on growth   

"No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?"

Dillard, Annie on beauty
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"Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless."

Richards, R. Scott on truth   

"Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies."

Gandhi, Mahatma on faith
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"The words of the world want to make sentences."

Bachelard, Gaston on words
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"Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art."

Carter, Angela on art   

"The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music."

Shaftesbury, Lord on truth
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"The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss."

Kempis, Thomas on weakness
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"Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it."

Kempis, Thomas on thoughts and thinking   

"Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view."

Kempis, Thomas on goals
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"The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock."

Kempis, Thomas on enemies   

"Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be."

Kempis, Thomas on duty
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"To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain."

Drummond, Henry on jesus christ
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"Making a decision to have a child -- it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body."

Stone, Elizabeth on decisions
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"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on death
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"A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life."

Mumford, Lewis on beauty   

"Faith is the vision of the heart; it sees God in the dark as well as in the day."

Unknown, Source on faith
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"Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason."

Platen on joy   

"Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account."

Euripides on attitude
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"Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays."

Kierkegaard, Søren on prayer
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"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice -- is often the means of their regeneration."

Mill, John Stuart on war
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"Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad."

Roux, Joseph on conflict
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"There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts."

Roux, Joseph on cries and crying
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"A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality."

Fadiman, Clifton on food and eating
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"He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on christians and christianity
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"Contempt is not a thing to be despised. "

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"Education is the cheap defence of nations. "

Burke, Edmund on uncategorised   

"It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare."

Burke, Edmund on complaints and complaining   

"All humans are hypocrites; the biggest hypocrite of all is the one who claims to detest hypocrisy."

Wastholm, Peter on hypocrisy
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"Stumbling is not falling."

Proverb, Portuguese on adversity
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"There is a remedy for everything; it is called death."

Proverb, Portuguese on death
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