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Letter "H" » have-not
«Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.»
«I am your friend and my love for you goes deep. There is nothing I can give you which you have not got, But there is much, very much, that, while I cannot give it, you can take. No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in today. Take heaven! No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present little instant. Take peace! The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach, is joy.»
Author: Fra Giovanni Giocondo
(Archeologist, Architect, Engineer)
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Friendship
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«How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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«It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.»
«A penny is a lot of money, if you have not got a penny.»
«It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.»
«There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been measured. But my time is coming.»
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
(Author, Writer)
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«In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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«Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Atheism
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«How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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degrees, have-not, heal, patience, poor, wound
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