Bahá'u'lláh Quotes
Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.
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History is obviously dependent on the evidence, and it's always amazing to me how much evidence there is.
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People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.
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I write totally spontaneously. I actually write fiction by hand - that always seems to startle people. I think the reason I do that is to bypass the thinking part of me and get to the more unconscious part, which is where all the good ideas seem to be.
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I read The Stinky Cheese Man as an adult. I missed that book when I was a kid. I grew up mostly with books bought at yard sales, picture books from the fifties to 1975, which is really a lucky thing.
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Sorrows when shared are less burdensome, though joys divided are increased.
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I'm not very interested in telling the facts. I have a lot of investment in telling the truth.
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Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are afraid of the noise and strife caused by the applications of the truth, heaven save the land! Its funeral bell has already rung.
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The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
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There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
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Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.
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I would rather be handsome for an hour than pretty for a week.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.
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I was growing tired of all the fussing and prevaricating, of the stolen hours and the secret rendez-vous; of the small indignities and broad discomfort that are part and parcel of adultery.
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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There's no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune.
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My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw.
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Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.
