John Calvin Quotes
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Now suddenly you got members of your White House team who were 23, 24. They've met their wives here, or their husbands here.
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Life is full of surprises, some good, some not so good.
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The true Christian is like sandalwood, which imparts its fragrance to the axe which cuts it, without doing any harm in return.
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Love, too, has to be learned.
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You cannot treat with all the world at once.
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What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our problem.
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Everything is beautiful in its own way. Exuberance is beauty.
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The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.
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Great emotional singing isn't a destination, it's a journey, one to be taken time and again to different places with different moods and different audiences.
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People lose their lives in the drug wars and you don't have to prove it to yourself because others have proved it for you.
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War proves nothing. To kill a man does not prove that he was in the wrong. Bloodletting cannot change men's spirits, neither can the evil of men's thoughts be driven out by blows. If I go to my neighbor's house, and break her furniture, and smash her pictures, and bind her children captive, it does not prove that I am fitter to live than she - yet according to ethics of nations it does. I have conquered her and she must pay me for my trouble; and her house and all that is left in it belongs to my heirs and successors, forever. That is war!
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A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.
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I've been trying to write for as long as I can remember. But those first fifteen years didn't produce much of great interest. I mean, it embarrasses me very much to look back on my early poems--very few lines of any merit at all and lots of affectation. But there were quite a lot of them. That's a point in one's favor.
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It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .
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As you see, context is everything and nothing at the same time. Words stand alone and with each other.
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The name of Christ excludes all merit of our own.
