Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes
There are many trials that seem hard to bear at first which prove true blessings later when we see of what false materials they were first composed.
Quotes to Explore
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Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.
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I lay in the bed at the hospital and said, 'let's see what I have left.' And I could see, I could speak, I could think, I could read. I simply tabulated my blessings, and that gave me a start.
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Instead of getting angry at somebody for opposing you on something, you're just praying for them. You just pray blessings on them, blessings on their family.
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Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!
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The biggest things in life are not materials.
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A hair divides what is false and true.
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You shouldn't talk about yourself all the time - most of us aren't for sale. Our books are. Talk about them. It's not a question of whether or not you're fascinating on a personal level - it's that your trivia and trials might not have any connection to the tone, tenor and sense of your books.
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Sentences are not as such either true or false.
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I developed a counterterrorism device that's revolutionizing the way we detect nuclear materials.
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Giving is an expression of gratitude for our blessings.
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We should not televise trials. There's only one purpose for a criminal trial. It's to determine whether or not the defendant committed the crime. Anything that interferes or has the potential of interfering with that should automatically be prohibited.
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Directing is more comfortable for me because, as an actor, there's always something inherently false. Because I'm not that person.
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Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. But Moses was told explicitly, God's blessings come only from obedience. Satan will not win because he has abandoned God's tool of dominion, biblical law.
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Let no rank puff up anyone; for faith and love are paramount - the greatest blessings in the world.
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I have no doubt concerning that Supreme Goodness, who is so eager to share His blessings, or of that everlasting love which makes Him more eager to bestow perfection on us than we are to receive it.
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A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers.
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When I ran for governor, was I ambitious? Yes. Anyone, male or female, who goes through the trials of a campaign must be ambitious.
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I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.
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If you see swarms of guys coming around you, you have to try and avoid being stuck on the kerb.
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The best teacher is not life, but the crystallized and distilled experience of the most sensitive, reflective, and most observant of our human beings, and this experience you will find preserved in our great books and nowhere else.
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Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open.
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There are many trials that seem hard to bear at first which prove true blessings later when we see of what false materials they were first composed.
