Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
It cannot be right to be the slave of one's household gods, and I protest that if my furniture ever annoyed me by wanting to be dusted when I wanted to be doing something else, and there was no one to do the dusting for me, I would cast it all into the nearest bonfire and sit and warm my toes at the flames with great contentment, triumphantly selling my dusters to the very next pedlar who was weak enough to buy them.
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When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.
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If you are of the truth, if you have learned the truth, if you see the sanctity of the truth, then speak truth. We are not called to be deceivers or liars. God is a God of truth, and His people are called to have an enormously high standard of truth.
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Preachers must always fight the temptation to preach anything but Christ and Him crucified.
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I think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do with faith.
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An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?
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For every action there’s a reaction. And also, for every action there’s an equal and opposite criticism.
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I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.
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Cancer is always funny.
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All is flux, nothing is stationary.
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When we come to poetry, we can't fancy a more poverty stricken predicament.
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A custom-tailored suit retains a certain dignity about it.
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I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.
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Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?
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The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
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God has given us everything we need for life and godliness. And he's given us the indwelling strength and guidance of the Holy Spirit. The rest is up to us.
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As an allegorical art, then, photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image.
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Now the myths represent the Gods themselves and the goodness of the Gods subject always to the distinction of the speakable and the unspeakable, the revealed and the unrevealed, that which is clear and that which is hidden: since, just as the Gods have made the goods of sense common to all, but those of intellect only to the wise, so the myths state the existence of Gods to all, but who and what they are only to those who can understand.
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It cannot be right to be the slave of one's household gods, and I protest that if my furniture ever annoyed me by wanting to be dusted when I wanted to be doing something else, and there was no one to do the dusting for me, I would cast it all into the nearest bonfire and sit and warm my toes at the flames with great contentment, triumphantly selling my dusters to the very next pedlar who was weak enough to buy them.
