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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My little girl's in Heaven. She's my angel, and I can draw from that.
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Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure an individual, social and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass away.
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days.
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Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.
