Quote by Willa Cather
No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. – Willa Cather

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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world. – Willa Cather

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Sunshine
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What was any art but a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself — life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. – Willa Cather

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Art
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The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always. – Willa Cather

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No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods. – Demosthenes

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The best way to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. – Charles Austin Beard

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Independence

This gives force to the strong — that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Independence

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. – Woodrow T. Wilson

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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. – Ambrose Bierce

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