Quote by E.M. Forster
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starc

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. – E.M. Forster

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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life. – E.M. Forster

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I do like Christmas on the whole…. In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year. – E.M. Forster

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Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West. – E.M. Forster

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A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences. – Whittaker Chambers

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It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice. – Cat Stevens

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Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sectors work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite. – Mortimer Zuckerman

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God enters by a private door into every individual. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The first purpose of clothes… was not warmth or decency, but ornament…. Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries. – Thomas Carlyle

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To the brave and the faithful, nothing is impossible. – Anonymous

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There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age. – Bill Bryson

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To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making. – Otto von Bismarck

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