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“There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!”

People Believe Wish Lucky Creatures

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“A woman well bred and well taught, furnished with the additional accomplishments of knowledge and behaviour, is a creature without comparison. Her society is the emblem of sublimer enjoyments, her person is angelic, and her conversation heavenly. She is all softness and sweetness, peace, love, wit, and delight. She is every way suitable to the sublimest wish, and the man that has such a one to his portion, has nothing to do but to rejoice in her, and be thankful.”

Source: An Essay Upon Projects

“Those may justly be reckoned void of understanding that do not bless and praise God; nor do men ever rightly use their reason till they begin to be religious, nor live as men till they live to the glory of God. As reason is the substratum or subject of religion (so that creatures which have no reason are not capable of religion), so religion is the crown and glory of reason, and we have our reason in vain, and shall one day wish we had never had it, if we do not glorify God with it.”

Source: Matthew HenryÕs Commentary on the Whole Bible: Volume IV-III - Ezekiel to Hosea

“Perhaps the time has come to formulate a moral code which would govern our relations with the great creatures of the sea as well as with those on dry land. That this will come to pass is my dear wish.”

Wells Wish Moral Sea Land Creatures Rivers Relation Dear Fishes Boat Code Dry Lakes Fishing Moral Code Dry Land

Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau

“Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly.”

Wish Sea Land Creatures Poetry Is Diaries

Author:Carl Sandburg

“God is a kind Father. He sets us all in the places where he wishes us to be employed. He chooses work for every creature which will be delightful to them if they do it simply and humbly. He gives us always strength enough and sense enough for what he wants us to do.”

Ifs Want Giving Kind Enough Father Wish Creatures Delightful Employed Want U

Book:The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation

Source: The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation

“If plants could be credited with reasoning powers, we would marvel at the imaginative ways they bribe or ensnare other creatures to carry out their wishes.”

Ifs Way Wish Creatures Plant Reasoning Imaginative Bribe

Author:Jane Goodall

“I don't want to turn into one of those pathetic creatures who are always homesick, always saying I wish I were still in Beirut. I don't want to become like you, split between here and there. I know I'm not happy here, but why should I be unhappy in two countries?”

Knows Want Should Stills Two Country Turns Wish Like You Creatures Unhappy Splits Should I Pathetic Here And There Not Happy Homesick Two Countries Beirut

Book:Beirut Blues

Source: Beirut Blues

“Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.”

People Wish Creatures Fellows Annoying Refuge Philanthropy

Book:The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

“Though they themselves might be as surprised as their parents and teachers to hear it said, adolescents--these poignantly thin- skinned and vulnerable, passionate and impulsive, starkly sexual and monstrously self-absorbed creatures--are, in fact, avid seekers of moral authenticity. They wish above all to achieve some realistic power over the real world in which they live while at the same time remaining true to their values and ideals.”

“I never pretend to be so superior a being as to be above having and indulging a hobby horse [her journal writing], and while I keep mine within due bounds and limits, nobody, I flatter myself, would wish to deprive me of the poor animal: to be sure, he is not formed for labour, and is rather lame and weak, but then the dear creature is faithful, constant, and loving, and though he sometimes prances, would not kick anyone into the mire, or hurt a single soul for the world--and I would not part with him for one who could win the greatest prize that ever was won at any races.”

“Choice is the key, because human beings are the only creatures who can choose to evolve, who can shape their destiny. Furthermore, we have been given the gift of "self-awareness," which allows us to step back into our true selves to observe and use our brains to create the world we wish to live in.”

World Humans Has Beens Self Use Choices Given Wish Human Beings Brain Steps Destiny Awareness Keys Shapes Creatures Self Awareness Evolve True Self

Author:Deepak Chopra