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Quote by Samuel Butler
Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things. – Samuel Butler

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We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them. – Samuel Butler

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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him. – Samuel Butler

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It is bad enough to see one’s own good things fathered on other people, but it is worse to have other people’s rubbish fathered upon oneself. – Samuel Butler

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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. – Edgar Allan Poe

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Books that distribute things… with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again. – Marsilio Ficino

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You can plant a dream. – Anne Campbell

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Ive got heaps of dreams. – Abbie Cornish

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The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today. – William Lyon MacKenzie

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I believe that every person is born with talent. – Maya Angelou

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My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, and I felt that energy, that delivery, that timing, that sarcasm. All that stuff seeped into my brain. – Jeff Ross

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I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees. – Pablo Neruda

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