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There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves.
One who lives in accordance with nature does not go against the way of things but moves in harmony with the present moment.
Apparently, I'm supposed to be more angry about what Mitt Romney does with his money than what Barack Obama does with mine.
We earn what we get - most of us - and, sweet heaven help us! we get it. God does not always pay on Saturday - but He Pays.
God does everything perfectly. The world doesn't really need saving; it's exactly the way God wants it to be at the moment.
A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.
I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, "a long poem," is simply a flat contradiction in terms.
The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.
What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.
I believe that either Jupiter has life or it doesn't. But I neither believe that it does, nor do I believe that it doesn't.
Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.
Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.
Erasing national borders does not make people safer or more prosperous. It undermines democracy and trades away prosperity.
I have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it.
Happiness will depend on what each of us does with what each has, what we learn from what we do, and what we do thereafter.
There will be no sickness for the saint of God. ... If your body belongs to God, it does not and cannot belong to sickness.
If the thought is slow to come, a glass of good wine encourages it; and when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it.
Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come-easy-go.
I am trying to find out why a subject does look so marvelous, and trying to make that sensation manifest on a flat surface.
When I think about what fiction does morally, I'm happier thinking of a person full of multiplicities - sort of fragmented.
I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards.
We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism.
The beginner hugs his infant poem to him and does not want it to grow up. But you may have to break your poem to remake it.
Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs.
God never intended for us to be left to pray on our own. God never changes His purpose, but He often does purpose a change.
HALF of America pays NO taxes. Zero. So they're happy for tax rates to be raised on the other half that DOES pay any taxes.
What good does it do to be afraid? It doesn't help anything. You better try and figure out what's happening and correct it.
When uncle Eddie does his impression of 'Like a Virgin' it's like Madonna is coming out of his body!' Christ what an image.
I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.
Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
True liberty does violence to self and, like Christ, who disregarded that he was sovereign becomes a slave to serve others.
I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.
The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always between, an interstice.
Why does everybody agree that atmospheric oxygen comes from life, but no one speaks about the other gases coming from life?
I don't know if it's rare, but from my experience, I think Suits does a lot more casting off of auditions than other shows.
weltschmerz: its the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be.
Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern macht sichtbar. Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible.
America's sanctions policy remains intact, and it will remain intact until it changes, if it does, and I'm not sure it will.
Remember, Monsieur, that Saint Augustine says that a person who does not obey the doctors is doing his best to kill himself.
There is nothing more poetic than the truth. He who does not see poetry in it will always be a poor versifier outside of it.
That Hegel's theory is derivative from Fichte's does not prevent it from being strikingly original and of independent value.
Assistance granted to the unemployed does not dispose of unemployment. It makes it easier for the unemployed to remain idle.
When an argument is over, how many weighty reasons does a man recollect which his heat and violence made him utterly forget?
The saving power of the cross does not depend on faith being addded to it; its saving power is such that faith flows from it
When I see the toothless guy, as a liberal, what I say is, 'I want to help you get teeth.' Why does that make me an a**hole?
Barry Manilow is a guy who's had a tremendous longevity that few have had in the music business. I'm in awe of what he does.
There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.
wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state
The womb is like an altar, it's the place where God continually comes into the world and does what only God can do...create.
We [Federal Government] have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work.