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Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing. Doris Lessing
Better Borrowing Stealing Begging Than Just Interest Lending Much
For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. Douglas Adams
Nothing Continue Happen After Happened Then Moment Second
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men. E. B. White
You Men Luck Something Mention Self-Made Presence
There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another. E. B. White
Complicated Complicated Things One Thing No Limit Leading Another Limit Always How Account Get Thing Things
Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it. Elizabeth Wurtzel
You Insanity Somehow Knowing Idiotic Still Doing Just Stop
One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Other Way East Winds Determines Drives Sails Go West Ship Blow Same Set
I had often sought for the peace there is in Christ, but I could not seem to find the freedom I desired. A terrible sadness rested on my heart. I could not think of anything I had done to cause me to feel sad; but it seemed to me that I was not good enough to enter Heaven, that such a thing would be altogether too much for me to expect. Ellen G. White
Sad Good Freedom Me Peace Heart Sadness Cause Christ Too Much Not Good Enough Think Too Enough Enter Would Would-Be Find Rested Seem Seemed Could Had Feel Terrible Sought Altogether Expect Done Often Heaven Anything Much Such A Thing Thing Desired
The hope of eternal life is not to be taken up upon slight grounds. It is a subject to be settled between God and your own soul; settled for eternity. A supposed hope, and nothing more, will prove your ruin. Ellen G. White
Life Hope God Soul Will Own Nothing Settled Ruin Slight More Taken Between Supposed Prove Subject Up Eternal Eternal Life Eternity Your Grounds
When you're surrounded by people who share the same set of assumptions as you, you start to think that's reality. Emily Levine
You Reality People Think Assumptions Share Surrounded Same Who Start Set
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. Eric Hoffer
Loneliness Failure Own House Greater His Than Stranger
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. Eric Hoffer
Hide Ugly Evil Our Pretenses Something Emptiness Greatest Built Up The Hardest Thing Us Hardest Hardest Thing Thing
A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority. Eric Hoffer
Will Minority Free Dissent Only Feels Most Majority Impose
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn. Eric Hoffer
Teacher Time Age Young Busy Our No Time Learn Malady Left Us Teaching
Your sister knows everything to say to piss you off. But sisters tend to be each other's biggest champion and also their hardest critics. Erin Foster
You Champion Sister Other Everything Say Critics Tend Also Knows Off Sisters Biggest Your Each Hardest
God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament. Evelyn Underhill
God Gratitude You Meet Sacrament Him Always Coming Moment Present Receive Present Moment
Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience. Evelyn Underhill
Wisdom Kindness Patience Opportunities Sympathy Seek Deliberately
November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the festive glow which precedes Christmas has began to brighten the landscape. F. Sionil Jose
Christmas November Weather Country Starts Harvest Parts Glow Began Precedes Festive Which Rice Landscape Cool Many Brighten
Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Veterans Day World Witness Before Valor Perfect Could Without Whole
People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
People Pleasant Some Various Like Buildings Personalities View
The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Heart Mind Birthplace Remains Accent Speech
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Good Man Old Example Advice Too Bad Bad Example Something Gives He Good Advice Set
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Best Our Find Something Misfortunes Altogether Always Friends Us
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love Good People Old Example Advice Bad Bad Example Give Inability Them Good Advice Old People Set
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy Change Madness Passion Those Absolute Ceases Either Then Bred Turns Doubts Certainties
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Understanding Own Minds Beyond Anything Which Dismiss Mediocre
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Great Management Enough Great Qualities Also Qualities Them Should
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