Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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What is now common to all men is a mere abstract universal, an H.C.F. Highest Common Factor, and Man's conquest of himself means simply the rule of the Conditioners over the conditioned human material, the world of post-humanity which, some knowingly and some unknowingly, nearly all men in all nations are at present labouring to produce.
C. S. Lewis
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'I don't... I don't care,' he said softly to his reflection. 'I have a job to do. It doesn't matter what I have become. It doesn't matter what I look like.'
Garth Nix
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Above the mists on Hatheg-Kla, earth's gods sometimes dance reminiscently; for they know they are safe, and love to come from unknown Kadath in ships of clouds and play in the olden way, as they did when earth was new and men not given to the climbing of inaccessible places.
H. P. Lovecraft
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Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit, a Man; Simplicity, a Child.
Alexander Pope
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We were like a moth right next to the flame. It's like, do any more and you go down. We were so tired. One final lap, and then have a rest.
Meg White
The White Stripes
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If I was a criminal, stationery stores and bakeries would be the two kinds of places I would concentrate on.
John Turturro
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Ruler of heaven, Ruler of every people! We knew not, O Christ! that it was thou. If we had known thee, Christ, we should have refrained from thee.
Taliesin
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To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it must one day quit the nibbled leaf to soar aloft and flutter through the air, roving at will from flower to flower, sipping sweet honey from their cups, or basking in their sunny petals.
Anne Bronte
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Talent and worth are the only eternal grounds of distinction. To these the Almighty has affixed His everlasting patent of nobility. Knowledge and goodness,--these make degrees in heaven, and they must be the graduating scale of a true democracy.
Catharine Sedgwick
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By the fall of 2007, my last remaining Iraqi friend in Baghdad had left. Once he was gone, my connection to the country and the war began to thin, even as the terror diminished. I missed the improvement that came with the surge, and so, in my nervous system, I never quite registered it.
George Packer
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And step by step, along the path of life, There's nothing true but Heaven.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe