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The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.


Horatio Alger

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“Ri...
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HORATIO ALGER You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's...
N.K. JEMISIN Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON I desired as many as could to join together in fasting and prayer, that God would restore the spirit...
JOHN WESLEY It was a great night to prepare us for the playoffs.
DARIN HICKEY Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in soc...
NAT TURNER It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the ...
VICTOR HUGO Seize the day, then let it go.
MARTY RUBIN ...as long as you imagine you are rich there is nothing to thank god for, and you cannot be aware of...
ANTHONY BLOOM There is no requirement whatsoever for a security clearance for a candidate. The mere fact that a ca...
JAMES R. CLAPPER What if you spent some alone time every morning? Call it prayer. Call it planning. Call it centering...
STEVE GOODIER Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who u...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who und...
WILLIAM HAZLITT For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, ...
ROBERT RAINY Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He wh...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince;
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice ...
JOHN KEATS This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods.
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MANNY FARBER She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepar...
HENRI MATISSE Preparing for our passing is a way to preparing a better rest of our life.
LORRIN L. LEE America was passing her by. New York City was passing her by. Bridges and billboards bearing smiling...
IMBOLO MBUE [Amusingly, Clooney said in an interview that Alger Hiss was] probably ... was wrong about 99 percen...
GEORGE CLOONEY I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.
DAVID BLAINE We live unto Him, so committing our service to the Lord is the first and foremost priority of our li...
MONICA JOHNSON There are things on heaven and earth, Horatio, Man was not meant to know.
HAMLET In confession occurs the breakthrough of the Cross. The root of all sin is pride, superbia. I want t...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER If there was anything I learned from John the Baptist, it was that the sooner you confess a mistake,...
CHRISTOPHER MOORE Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the...
GEORGE S. PATTON It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fas...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ In my mind's eye, Horatio.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You do not make ground breaking discoveries in science by fasting , you have to pay the price of wor...
SUNDAY ADELAJA There has to be some evidence besides the confession that the criminal act was committed by someone ...
STEPHANIE PAGE Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light.
LAUREN LOLA Now is everything
Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that ...
KAREN HACKEL One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is...
R.J. GONZALES The prayer of Ajax was for light; Through all that dark and desperate fight, The blackness of ...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin. All hope consists in confes...
ST. ISADORE I'm about to do something very clever and a tiny bit against the rules of the universe. It's importa...
TOMMY DONBAVAND Lord, help us to choose humility over pride.
Help us to choose love over our reputation.
ANDRENA SAWYER We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
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F. W. KATES I’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present.
JONATHAN HARNISCH Tonight was not a good night. We need to work on our passing. The girls are not playing with confide...
ANDREA FORD Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
GEORGE HERBERT Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.
EMM COLE We need to embrace every day and enjoy it as much as we can.
KAREN TODD SCARPULLA In moments of surprise we catch at least a glimpse of the joy to which gratefulness opens the door.
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CHRISTOPHER FOWLER Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it.
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JEANIENE FROST We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
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WILLIAM ROUNSEVILLE ALGER As two floating planks meet and part on the sea, O friend! so I met and then drifted from thee.
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