Religious people... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too often, they will not extend that spirit to our fellow creatures.
Matthew Scully
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The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask. The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ... PAULO COELHO Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Road to destination is often very straight with journey smooth, but majority has tendency to meander... ANUJ SOMANY The tree of life is made of purity, eternity and has the bark of wisdom and enlightenment.With its b... GARY F EVANS... Home is watching the moon rise over the open, sleeping land and having someone you can call to the w... STEPHEN KING In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The meaning of life: For centuries "man" searched for the meaning of life. On that journey, the valu... DORIS J TORRES Consider the fruit of the Spirit; that is what the Christian life should be. HENRY HON I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th... QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love. 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QUEEN ELIZABETH II the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi... THE BOOK OF THE DEAD When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in t... THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... 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In patient, deep disdain.
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Yet let me say that she was fair;
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The foliaged marble forest where ye lie,
Hush, ye wi... MATTHEW ARNOLD Now fitted the halter, now travers'd the cart,
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It dreams a rest, if not more deep,
More grateful ... MATTHEW ARNOLD To err is human. MATTHEW PRIOR The end must justify the means. MATTHEW PRIOR I met a preacher there I knew, and said,
Ill and overworked, how fare you in this scene?
Brave... MATTHEW ARNOLD Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
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Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more.
... MATTHEW ARNOLD Others abide our question. Thou art free.
We ask and ask--Thou smilest and art still,
Out-top... MATTHEW ARNOLD Hark! ah, the nightingale--
The tawny-throated!
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... MATTHEW ARNOLD Six years--six little years--six drops of time. MATTHEW ARNOLD They live that they may eat, but he himself [Socrates] eats that
he may live. MATTHEW ARNOLD This strange disease of modern life,
With its sick hurry, its divided aims. MATTHEW ARNOLD