"To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God."

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"To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God."

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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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"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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"It was necessary that the Devil should have a representation upon the earth as well as God."

Warren Jeffs, American Criminal

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"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."

Light

"You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you."

Morality

"I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man."

Life

"Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit."

Time

"It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook."

Woman

"For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something of the sort, so that life would not pass by and retreat into eternity without a trace."

Philanthropy

"Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too."

Difference

"He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative falsehood, exactly like the lives of his friends and acquaintances; and another life running its course in secret. And through some strange, perhaps accidental, conjunction of circumstances, everything that was essential, of interest and of value to him, everything in which he was sincere and did not deceive himself, everything that made the kernel of his life, was hidden from other people."

Self

"There is nothing new in art except talent."

Art

"Ivanov: Once I worked hard and thought a lot but I never got tired; now I do nothing and think of nothing, but I'm tired in body and spirit. My conscience aches day and night, I feel deeply guilty but I don't understand where I am actually at fault. And add to that my wife's illness, my lack of money, the constant bickering, gossip, unnecessary conversations, that stupid Borkin... My home has become loathsome to me and I find living there worse than torture."

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