"The grace of God is courtesy."

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"God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest."

Herodotus, Greek Historian

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"Truth is Mormonism. God is the author of it."

Joseph Smith, Jr., American Clergyman

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"The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him."

Jose Ortega y Gasset, Spanish Philosopher

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"Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion."

Albrecht Dürer, German Artist

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"Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity."

Jean Cocteau, French Director

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"From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends."

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"I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment."

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"An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight."

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"When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly."

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"Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone."

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"Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death."

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"Money gives me pleasure all the time."

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"We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment."

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"Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography."

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"All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men."

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