Excerpts of Citations
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More than those who hate you, more than all your enemies, an undisciplined mind does greater harm.
~Buddha
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Doubts…often beget the facts they fear.
~Thomas Jefferson
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He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in Eternity's sunrise.~William Blake
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Little by little a person becomes evil, as a water pot is filled by drops of water...
Little by little a person becomes good, as a water pot is filled by drops of water.~Buddha
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The most inspiring thing about the life of Jesus was not his ability
to quiet the storm or control the tempest, but absolute control of
himself.~Sterling W. Sill
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When you know a thing, you believe it, and the true believer sees with his spiritual discernment that which the surface investigator cannot see with the eyes of his head, and he understands through...
~Kahlil Gibran
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The doctrine of foreordination is not a doctrine of repose; instead, it is a doctrine for second- and third-milers, and it will draw out of them the last full measure of devotion. It is a doctrine ...
~Neal A. Maxwell
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When in situations of stress we wonder if there is any more in us to give, we can be comforted to know that God, who knows our capacity perfectly, placed us here to succeed. No one was foreordained...
~Neal A. Maxwell
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All my life I have been trying to learn, to read, to see and hear, and to write. At sixty-five I began my first novel and after the five years, lacking a month, I took to finish it, I was still tra...
~Carl Sandburg
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As soon as beauty is sought, not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, you must at least once in your life doubt, as far as possible, all things.
~Rene Descartes
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During the early phases of World War II, a most vital decision was made by one of the great leaders of the Allied Military, Viscount Slim of Great Britain. Long after the war he made this statement...
~Viscount Slim
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On the plains of hesitation bleached the bones of countless millions
Who at the dawn of victory sat down to rest, and resting died~George W. Cecil
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How insignificant mere money-seeking looks in comparison with a serene life - a life that dwells in the ocean of Truth, beneath the waves, beyond the reach of tempests, in the Eternal Calm!
~James Allen
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The thoughtless, the ignorant, and the indolent, seeing only the apparent effects of things and not the things themselves, talk of luck, of fortune, and chance. See a man grow rich, they say, "How ...
~James Allen