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"Melt all the tanks in the world and make them rubbish bins. They will be much more useful for the humanity!"

"As long as you look only at the situation in the world today, it will be very hard . . . to overcome your worries because it is true that there are many problems and the future is unknown to us. Lift your eyes beyond your circumstances and learn instead to trust God. Worrying . . . won't change anything."

"I wish upon a glimmering star,My hopes as distant and as far. So if this wish does not come true,I'm thankful for the few that do."

"I took a breath and let it go and suddenly the air was crisper and my lungs lighter and suddenly there was him saying my name in different ways and I catch myself throwing glances in the mirror, seeing someone I don't know quite yet but I can't wait to, and that is the start of everything."

"It is currently said that hope goes with youth, and lends to youth its wings of a butterfly; but I fancy that hope is the last gift given to man, and the only gift not given to youth. Youth is pre-eminently the period in which a man can be lyric, fanatical, poetic; but youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged; God has kept that good wine until not. It is from the backs of the elderly gentlemen that the wings of the butterfly should burst."

"Beware how you take away hope from another human being."

"I can't take the ring. It means-it means too much to you. It's all you have left of them."That's why it's better if you have it, he said, and held out the box, cupped in one hand."Because you can make it a better memory. I can barely look at this thing without seeing the past. I don't want to see the past anymore. I want to see the future. He didn't blink, and she felt the breath leave her body. "You're the future, Claire."
Explore more quotes by Edward F. Halifax

"Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it."

"The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you."

"Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for."

"When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters."

"Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money."

"Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it."
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