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“So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.”

Years Looks Stories Grows Growing Up Limits Draws Biblical Inclination

Author:Mary Augusta Ward

“Remembering that God is my source, we are in the spiritual position of having an unlimited bank account. Most of us never consider how powerful the creator really is. Instead, we draw limited amounts of the power available to us. We decide how powerful God is for us. We unconsciously set a limit on how much God can give us or help us. We are stingy with ourselves. And if we receive a gift beyond our imagining, we often send it back.”

Source: The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition

“The State is competent to assign duties and draw the line between good and evil only in its immediate sphere. Beyond the limits of things necessary for its well-being, it can only give indirect help to fight the battle of life by promoting the influences which prevail against temptation--religion, education, and the distribution of wealth.”

Source: The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

“If a work of art is to be truly immortal, it must pass quite beyond the limits of the human world, without any sign of common sense and logic. In this way the work will draw nearer to dream and to the mind of a child.”

Ifs World Way Mind Humans Children Art Dream Common Limits Draws Art Is Logic Common Sense Immortal Works Of Art

Author:Giorgio de Chirico

“Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being? There are men, who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations withthem, and lead the activity of the human race. And if there be such a tie, that, wherever the mind of man goes, nature will accompany him, perhaps there are men whose magnetisms are of that force to draw material and elemental powers, and, where they appear, immense instrumentalities organize around them.”

Source: The Annotated Emerson

“There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good.”

Humans Has Beens Matter Facts Young Suffering Human Beings Human Nature Willing Limits Draws Evidence Innocent Conclusion Reasonable

Book:Dennis Prager: Volume I

Source: Dennis Prager: Volume I

“Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity.”

Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition

“Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems distinct almost within reach, but is elusive; it refuses to condense into definite form; the attaching of a word somehow (just how, it is almost impossible to say) puts limits around the meaning, draws it out from the void, makes it stand out as an entity on its own account.”

Matter Whole Seems Form Names Impossible Limits Draws Accounts Refuse Appropriate Void Entity Definite Vague Standing Out Elusive Within Reach

Book:How We Think: Top American Authors

Source: How We Think: Top American Authors

“You form a society: that limits you. Adopt a name, and you've limited yourself again; draw up a constitution and bylaws and you've made a groove, a rut, that hampers your growth. You think you can fix your course and move straight along it. But sometimes the important thing is to strike out sidewise.”

Thinking Made Important Sometimes Moving Form Courses Names Growth Limits Draws Constitution Important Things Strikes Groove Ruts Hamper Bylaws

Author:Robert Henri

“In the dime stores and bus stations People talk of situations Read books, repeat quotations Draw conclusions on the wall Some speak of the future My love she speaks softly She knows there’s no success like failure And that failure’s no success at all -Bob Dylan, “Love Minus Zero / No Limit” (1965)”

People Knows Book Speak Situation Wall Limits Draws Stores Conclusion Repeats Stations Zero Bus Bob Quotations Dylan Dimes Minus Speak Softly

Author:Bob Dylan