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

Other quotes by Willa Cather

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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power
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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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Independence
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I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman — they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence. – John Keats

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Be your own palace, or the world is your jail. – John Donne

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The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing. – Thomas Aquinas

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In the word of no master am I bound to believe. – Horace

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My family isnt really all that different from anyone elses. Well, maybe theyre a bit more entertaining. – David Sedaris

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It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow. – Calvin Coolidge

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