Quote by Richard Cecil
Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false. – Richard Cecil

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If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own. – Richard Cecil

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Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes. – Richard Cecil

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Gods way of answering the Christians prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction. – Richard Cecil

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I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesnt eradicate the reality of the suffering. Its all true at once, kind of humming and sublime. – George Saunders

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Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home. – Henry Drummond

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There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty. – Joseph Addison

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I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of lifes mystery and unpredictability, of lifes generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation. – Jane Smiley

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Ive always had questions about what it meant to be a protester, to be in the minority. Are the people who are trying to find peace, who are trying to have the Constitution apply to everybody, are they really the radicals? Were not protesting from the outside. Were inside. – Gil Scott-Heron

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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. – Jean Cocteau

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The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success? – Larry Flynt

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