"We see things as we are, not as they are."

Rosten, Leo on Appearance
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"Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance"

Beecher, Henry Ward on Appearance
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"You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are."

Cohen, Herb on Appearance
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"He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Writers and Writing
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"Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Thoughts and Thinking
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"The idol is the measure of the worshipper."

Lowell, James Russell on Idols
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"However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on Failure
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"Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them."

Lorimer, Geroge on Fools and Foolishness
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"Difficulties are things that show a person what they are."

Epictetus on Difficulties
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"Never excuse, never explain, never complain."

Motto on Complaints and Complaining
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"Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me."

Donne, John on Infatuation
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"Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel."

Luther, Martin on Churches
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"You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you."

Luther, Martin on Faith
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"When I am angry I can pray well and preach well."

Luther, Martin on Anger
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"Christians are rare people on earth."

Luther, Martin on Christians and Christianity
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"I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man."

Moody, Dwight L. on Christians and Christianity
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"By the grace of God, I'll be that man."

Moody, Dwight L. on Dedication
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"Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me."

Moody, Dwight L. on Example
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"Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand."

Acquinas, Saint Thomas on Faith
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"Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago."

Roberts, B.H. on Faith
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"Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding."

Luther, Martin on Faith
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"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."

Luther, Martin on Belief
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"Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times."

Luther, Martin on Faith
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"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet."

Shakespeare, William on Love
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"To me, the sea is like a person -- like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there."

Ederle, Gertrude on Sea
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"Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust."

Dickinson, Emily on Death and Dying
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"Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part."

Pope, Alexander on Death and Dying
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"Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going."

Williams, Tennessee on Memory
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"The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory."

Proverb, Chinese on Memory
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"I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design."

Billings, Josh on Poverty and The Poor
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"The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from."

Fowler, Gene on Writers and Writing
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"The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can."

Smith, Sydney on Action
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"Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you."

Moore, Mary Tyler on Pain
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"Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Prayer
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"There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers."

Teresa of Avila, St. on Prayer
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"The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer."

Augustine, St. on Desire
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"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation."

Buck, Pearl S. on Youth
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"Things are beautiful if you love them."

Anouilh, Jean on Beauty
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"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Prayer
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