"For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.“
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions."
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"It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong."
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"Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time."
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"There is no grief like the grief that does not speak."
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"However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure."
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"I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl."
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"When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied."
-John Woolman
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