"I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?"

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"I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?"

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

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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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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"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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"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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"I wouldn't have dared ask God for all that He's given me. I couldn't have done it on my own. I thank God every day for what I have."

Loretta Lynn, American Musician

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"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

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"To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you."

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

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

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

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

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

"I wouldn't have dared ask God for all that He's given me. I couldn't have done it on my own. I thank God every day for what I have."

"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."

"To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God."

"We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's."

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."

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"There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power."

"Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one."

"However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies."

"Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries."

"I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life."

"In reality art is always for everyone and for no one."

"I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me."

"Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose."

"True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know."

"Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you."