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🇬🇷Plutarch

Philosophy

"Eat not thy heart; which forbids to afflict our souls, and waste them with vexatious cares."

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Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

Religion

1815–1881

"We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff."

"By no means run in debt: take thine own measure.Who cannot live on twenty pound a year,Cannot on forty."

"The good life is the best preparation for bad times."

"Profane history shows that the Lacedaemonians, who were gentiles, did not practice capital punishment; but they imprisoned them and them at labor."

"Jesus Christ is not hurried; He calmly rules the storm, and holds the helm of this world in His hand, and it will not drift away from the course designated by the infinite authority and power of God."

"People are given a false alternative: the choice between an unenlightened belief and an enlightened unbelief. Most intellectuals seem to pay homage to the second variant."

"Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible."

"I came from a family where my people didn't like rhythm and blues. Bing Crosby - "Pennies from Heaven" - Ella Fitzgerald, was all I heard."

"Well, you know, when Pence talked last night, he told what my grandmother called a bold-faced lie. The first CARES Act, 83% of the money went to corporations and banks. It did not go to the people."

"Jack Malebranche’s Androphilia: A Manifesto"

"This is my body, and I can do whatever I want to it. I can push it. Study it. Tweak it. Listen to it. Everybody wants to know what I'm on. What am I on? I'm on my bike busting my ass six hours a day. What are you on?"

"Our daily life creates our symbol of God. No two ever cover quite the same conception."

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Gregory of Nazianzus

Religion

"I myself hold my friend the great Basil in high regard for his seriousness of character and the maturity and prudence of his discourse."

"The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had not said."

"What shall it profit us, unless life in the midst of it all has meaning? When a society spends more on advertising than it does on education, where is it headed?"

"Two millennia ago, the apostles followed Christ. They left everything, and their lives were never again the same. The path taken by the apostles is still a model today."

"A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories."

"The Antislavery Poems of John Pierpont, at the Antislavery Literature Project"

"The king must not be under man but under God and under the law."

"God is not a God of the edges, with a vested interest in beginnings. God is the God of the whole show."

"If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love."

"There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm."

"Whatever your religious belief was, I know that you have been a good Confederate. May God forgive your sins!"

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🇺🇸Henry Codman Potter

Religion

1835–1908

"We have exchanged the Washingtonian dignity for the Jeffersonian simplicity, which was in truth only another name for the Jacksonian vulgarity."

"Keble's works online at Project Canterbury"

"...Fatherland without freedom and merit is a large word with little meaning."

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🇺🇸Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Literature

1814–1880

"Through all God's works there runs a beautiful harmony. The remotest truth in His universe is linked to that which lies nearest the throne."

"Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives."

"The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself from it."

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