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“Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.”

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Thomas a Kempis (1380 - July 25, 1471) was a German canon, known for his spiritual writings. He is best known for his work 'The Imitation of Christ,' which has had a profound impact on Christian thought and practice. more

“The elephant, not only the largest but the most intelligent of animals, provides us with an excellent example. It is faithful and tenderly loving to the female of its choice, mating only every third year and then for no more than five days, and so secretly as never to be seen, until, on the sixth day, it appears and goes at once to wash its whole body in the river, unwilling to return to the herd until thus purified. Such good and modest habits are an example to husband and wife.”

Years Whole Body Choices Animal Five Wife Example Return Habit Husband Female Rivers Thirds Intelligent Excellent Faithful Modest Elephants Herds Unwilling Husband And Wife Mating

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“Judicial judgment must take deep account...of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.”

May Today Order Judgment Accounts Yesterday Judicial Precedent

Author:Felix Frankfurter

“The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.”

Wells May Common Foundation Tongue Citizenship Inheritance Priceless

Book:Churchill: The Power of Words

Source: Churchill: The Power of Words

“I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.”

Ifs Thinking Age Moving Talking Steps Grace Generations Objects Youth Please Dancing Tongue Ridicule

Book:The letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: including numerous letters now first published from the original manuscripts

Source: The letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: including numerous letters now first published from the original manuscripts

“In the old days, one married a wife; now one forms a company with a female partner, or moves in to live with a friend. And then one seduces the partner, or defiles the friend.”

Moving Form Company Wife Married Female Partners August Old Days Seducing Living Together

Book:Plays

Source: Plays

“They had me on the operating table all day. They looked into my stomach, my gall bladder, they examined everything inside of me. Know what they decided? I need glasses.”

Knows Needs Decided Tables Medicine Glasses Medical Stomach Eyeglasses Bladder

Author:Joe E. Lewis

“Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.”

Knows Humans Individual Energy Given Half Ought Limits Awake Incitement

Author:William James

“He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?”

Night Three Work Morning Five Week Ten Clothes Seasons Riches Clock Opera Every Night Idle Three Times Dine

Book:The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

“The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same).”

People Judging One Day Election Oscars Bygone Days

Book:Writing in restaurants

Source: Writing in restaurants

“To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.”

Source: The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time

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