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“Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.”

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Ezra Taft Benson was a notable American farmer and politician. Born on August 4, 1899, in Whitney, Idaho, he dedicated much of his life to agricultural endeavors. Serving as the Secretary of Agriculture under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1956, Benson was also a member of the LDS Church and a leader within the church's ranks. more

“No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. Happiness is a glory shining far down upon us out of Heaven. She is a divine dew which the soul, on certain of its summer mornings, feels dropping upon it from the amaranth bloom and golden fruitage of Paradise.”

World Feels Mean Doe Soul Certain Heaven Sound Morning Advice This World Divine Summer Glory Shining Golden Paradise Potatoes Hollow Dropping Dew Mockery Mould Manure Villette

Author:Charlotte Bronte

“A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.”

Inspirational Motivational Attitude Stones Optimism Block Optimistic Optimist Pessimist Stumbling Stepping Stones Stumbling Blocks

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“Follow your dreams. Just make sure to have fun too.”

Dream Fun Having Fun Your Dreams Follow Your Dreams Inspirational Celebrity

Author:Chris Brown

“Mr. Freeman sighs. "No imagination. What are you thirteen? Fourteen? You've already let them beat your creativity out of you!”

Imagination Creativity Beats Sigh Fourteen Thirteen Freeman

Book:Speak

Source: Speak

“Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.”

Said Stills Bravery Brave Scared Coraline

Book:Coraline

Source: Coraline

“But just make someone who has fallen in love listen to his stomach rumble, and the unity of body and soul, that lyrical illusion of the age of science , instantly fades away.”

Soul Body Age Illusion Unity Fallen Stomach Fades Lyrical Fade Away Unbearable Lightness Of Being Rumble

Author:Milan Kundera

“...the reading, the observing, the living from day to day. It was something that had been born into her and her only - the something different from anyone else in the two families. It was what God or whatever is His equivalent puts into each soul that is given life - the one different thing such as that which makes no two fingerprints on the face of the earth alike.”

Two Different Soul Earth Faces Reading Given Born Different Things Day To Day Observing Fingerprints Given Life

Book:A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Source: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“It was the meanest moment of eternity.”

Moments Eternity Bereavement

Book:Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.”

Hours Eternity Bereavement

Book:Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“The monstropolous beast had left his bed. The two hundred miles a hour wind had loosed his chains. He seized hold of his dikes and ran forward until he met the quarters; uprooted them like grass and rushed on after his supposed-to-be conquerors, rolling the dikes, rolling the houses, rolling the people in the houses along with other timbers. The sea was walking the earth with a heavy heel.”

Source: Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories

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