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wisdom art teach
Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art. C. S. Lewis
wisdom hands firsts
If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.
wisdom holy-places burning
If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of 'religion.'
wisdom thinking differences
In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by the group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other group can say.
wisdom mistake imperfection
Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.
wisdom heart love-is
Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.
wisdom absent
The absent are easily refuted.
wisdom gaps different
The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't.
wisdom medicine disease
Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?
travel airplane flying
I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
travel belief language
Language is the source of misunderstandings.
travel stars distance
The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgment to have safely traveled from star to star. Carl Sagan
travel bunk fascination
I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. He had evidently included the pillow in his celebrations. Bill Bryson
travel cities feelings
I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I've never been before.
travel nice europe
Traveling makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for preservation as they do in Europe.
travel names looks
What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit...
travel cities evening
I could spend my life arriving each evening in a new city.
travel memorable pessimism
Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.
angel brains closes gives hands key life mind seventy winds year
Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection. Oliver Wendell Holmes
angels biggest exceeded fallen gap margin number rising since stars though
Rising stars still outpace fallen angels globally, though the gap is narrower than in 2005, when the number of rising stars exceeded that of fallen angels by the biggest margin since 1997. Diane Vazza
angels guardian interest none
Remember, none of this would have come about if there weren't interest to have Guardian Angels from people. Curtis Sliwa
angels bin created creation lower man
Man was created a little lower than the angels and has bin getting a little lower ever since.
angels angry brief dressed fantastic heaven high proud tricks weep
Man, proud man, dressed in a little brief authority, like an angry ape, play such fantastic tricks before high heaven as make the angels weep William Shakespeare
angel flesh sparks
What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a down spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh.
angel hush-hush call-me
Hang on, did you just call me Angel?" "If I did? Becca Fitzpatrick
angel hands thumbs
Hang on, did you just call me Angel?” I asked. “If I did?” “I don’t like it.” He grinned. “It stays. Angel.” He leaned across the table, raised his hand to my face, and brushed his thumb along one corner of my mouth. I pulled away, too late.
angel fighting teach
Are we going to have to teach you to fight, Angel?