"Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel."

Pope, Alexander on Pride
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"Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind."

Golding, William on Sleep
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"For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word."

Bowen, Catherine Drinker on Writers and Writing
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"I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right. I do believe that right makes might and that if I am wrong, 10 angels swearing I was right would make no difference. I do believe, with all my heart and mind and spirit, that I, not as President but as a humble servant of God, will receive justice without mercy if I fail to show mercy. "

Ford, Gerald R. on Uncategorised
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"Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need."

Plautus, Titus Maccius on Friends and Friendship
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"Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on Pleasure
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"God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you."

Eckhart, Meister on Self-expression
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"There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhaps (though not nearly as well as a man), but emotionally she is never left in peace. Her friends, her family, her fellow workers never let her forget that her husbandlessness, her childlessness -- her selfishness, in short -- is a reproach to the American way of life."

Jong, Erica on Women
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"Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name."

Meynell, Alice on Travel and Tourism
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