"...some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not."

Philosophy, Identity, Home, Nostalgia, Fate

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"...some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not."

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"The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties."

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"We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person."

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"The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind."

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"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."

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"Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less."

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"When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right."

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"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered."

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"The crown of literature is poetry."

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"What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature."

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"Heaven is a wonderful place and the benefits for the believer are out of this world!"

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"God does not want an apartment in our house. He claims our entire home from attic to cellar."

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"I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose!"

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"Thought, if I may put it, is the man behind the possession, appearance, things we like, things we hate and the very epitome of life."

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"Talk about God can become dreary and lackluster if God isn't in you. Church can become a drab thing and the Bible an irksome Book if the Holy Spirit does not illuminate your soul with His indwelling presence."

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"We should not covet or expect the praise of ungodly men . . . the very fact that they are inclined to persecute us is proof that we are “not of the world."

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"A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really..."Do the stars gaze back?" Now, that's a question."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"Heavenly rest will be so refreshing that we will never feel that exhaustion of mind and body we so frequently experience now. I'm really looking forward to that."

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