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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. Cyril Connolly
Yourself Better Write Self Than Public
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. D. H. Lawrence
Life Love Gardening Love Is Law Flower Must Plucked Hour Without Blossoms Duration Unexpectedly Where Brief Found Enjoyed
The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just. D. H. Lawrence
Angry Justice Anger Soul Follow Intuition Only Never Sincere Gentle Judgement Just Pity
Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested. Elizabeth I
Faith Silence You Secrets Those Tell Tested Whose
Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul. George Carman
Soul Confusion Feelings Drinks Like Mixed Mixed Feelings
It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher. George Whitefield
Neither Gives Himself Makes Nor Preacher Offense Poor Sermon
As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things. Isaac Newton
God Man All Things No Idea Colors Idea Blind Blind Man Understands Which Manner Things
Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. Izaak Walton
Good Journey Way Seem Makes Good Company Company
From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That's what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest. Jane Goodall
Strength Spiritual Strong Fear Sadness Perspective Power Believe Spiritual Power Absolutely Greater Am Forest Very Than Which Far Derived Moments
I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people. John Lennon
Life You Change People My Life Live Way Those All My Life Freak Feel Know Look Always Been Going Anything Conform
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us. John Locke
Character Our Those Moral Moral Character Color Take Like Around Hue Us Who
A child's mental health is just as important as their physical health and deserves the same quality of support. Kate Middleton
Health Quality Mental Health Important Physical Mental Physical Health Support Child Same Just Deserves
My parents taught me about the importance of qualities like kindness, respect, and honesty, and I realize how central values like these have been to me throughout my life. Kate Middleton
Life Kindness Me Respect Honesty Values My Life Parents About Throughout Like Importance Qualities How Been Taught Central Realize
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Richard Dawkins
Selfish Try Born Generosity Because Altruism Us Teach Let Us
I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people. Russell Brand
You Be Happy Selfish Happy Yourself People Care Other Recognize Ability About Only Also Expense
Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers. Simon Sinek
Great People Sacrifice Willing Great Leaders Leaders Poor Numbers Save
If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it would have recollapsed before it reached its present size. On the other hand, if it had been greater by a part in a million, the universe would have expanded too rapidly for stars and planets to form. Stephen Hawking
Big Before Stars Universe Too Other Hundred Rapidly Thousand Would Rate Had Part Smaller Reached Greater Big Bang Been Hand Expansion Bang Size Form After Planets Even Million Present Second
Nothing is too controversial, but you have to think about how to do it with sensitivity. I don't try to be insensitive. I think really, really carefully about exactly what things mean and how they will affect people. Stewart Lee
You People Try Will Nothing Think Carefully Too Insensitive Exactly Exactly What About How Affect Controversial Sensitivity Mean Really Things
Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. Thomas Gray
Wise Ignorance Folly Bliss Where Tis Ignorance Is Bliss
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. Thomas Hardy
Hope Disappointment Scar Entirely Never Leaves Ultimate Which Fulfillment Sudden
Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst. Thomas Paine
Religion Tyranny Worst Affect Mankind
Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction. William Blake
You World Will Made Up Contradiction Fiction
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. William Inge
Environmental Religion Animal Feathers Rest Devil Doubt Creation Fur Our Distant Enslaved Would Able Badly Beyond Cousins Were Human Depict Form Formulate Human Form Treated
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. William Shakespeare
Dream Shadow Merely Ambitious Very Substance
What's done can't be undone. William Shakespeare
Undone Done
The love of heaven makes one heavenly. William Shakespeare
Love Faith Makes Heaven Heavenly
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