What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Henry Van Dyke

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Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

Henry Van Dyke

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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Heraclitus

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Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

Heraclitus

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In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder.

Fulton J. Sheen

Every Friendship Hearts Themselves

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Satan always tempts the pure - the others are already his.

Fulton J. Sheen

Satan Always Tempt Others

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The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.

Heraclitus

Carry Chain Heavy Sometimes

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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.

Fulton J. Sheen

Against Old Rebel Without

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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Orson Welles

Born Alone Live Live

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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.

Fulton J. Sheen

Religion Most Commit Same

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Donâ€™t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.

Orson Welles

Give Them They Want

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Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

Heraclitus

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Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.

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Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.

Heraclitus

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I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out

Orson Welles

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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

Danger Does Encounters Also

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Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Orson Welles

Race Hate Human Nature

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Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.

Fulton J. Sheen

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To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

Heraclitus

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Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don't like to open a letter that has bad news.

Fulton J. Sheen

Most Like Look Inside

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I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

Heraclitus

Assistance Greek Libraries Little

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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Orson Welles

You Want Happy Ending

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It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

Heraclitus

Against Contend Cost Desire

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Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Orson Welles

Create Own Visual Style

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The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

Heraclitus

Best Cattle Eternal Fame

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A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.

Fulton J. Sheen

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Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.

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Those Think Church Pays

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When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!

Fulton J. Sheen

When Child Given His

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Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on creating hungers which its wares never satisfy, and thus it adds to the frustrations and broken minds of our times.

Fulton J. Sheen

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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

Orson Welles

Doctor Told Stop Having

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Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.

Fulton J. Sheen

Destined More Nothing Deep-seated

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Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.

Herb Caen

Anything Cockroaches Eat Night

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There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.

Fulton J. Sheen

Guide Angels There Are

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The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.

Herb Caen

Around Bigger Christians Even

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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

Orson Welles

Enemy Art Absence Limitations

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Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.

Fulton J. Sheen

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A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.

Herb Caen

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A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds.

Herb Caen

Against Ahead City Concrete

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I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.

Herb Caen

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A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author... if it doesn't sell any papers, it's not a good column. It's a terrible yardstick to use, but in the newspaper business, that's the whole thing.

Herb Caen

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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Nothing This World Speaking

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It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

Hermann Hesse

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All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Hermann Hesse

Accomplish Ideals Incredible Men

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Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Love Animals Plants Everything

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Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Life Matters What Life

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Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Learning Love Hard Pay

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If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

You Wish Glimpse Inside

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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

Orson Welles

Artist Good Isolated He

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Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.

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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Henry Van Dyke

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

Henry Van Dyke

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Heraclitus

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

Heraclitus

In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder.

Fulton J. Sheen

Satan always tempts the pure - the others are already his.

Fulton J. Sheen

Heraclitus

The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.

Fulton J. Sheen

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Orson Welles

Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.

Fulton J. Sheen

Donâ€™t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.

Orson Welles

Heraclitus

Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.

Fulton J. Sheen

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.

Heraclitus

I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out

Orson Welles

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Orson Welles

Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.

Fulton J. Sheen

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

Heraclitus

Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don't like to open a letter that has bad news.

Fulton J. Sheen

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

Heraclitus

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Orson Welles

It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

Heraclitus

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Orson Welles

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

Heraclitus

A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.

Fulton J. Sheen

Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.

Fulton J. Sheen

When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!

Fulton J. Sheen

Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on creating hungers which its wares never satisfy, and thus it adds to the frustrations and broken minds of our times.

Fulton J. Sheen

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

Orson Welles

Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.

Fulton J. Sheen

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.

Herb Caen

There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.

Fulton J. Sheen

Herb Caen

Orson Welles

Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.

Fulton J. Sheen

A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.

Herb Caen

A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds.

Herb Caen

I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.

Herb Caen

A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author... if it doesn't sell any papers, it's not a good column. It's a terrible yardstick to use, but in the newspaper business, that's the whole thing.