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"What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around."	Georges Bernanos
"The bird of paradise alights only in the hand that does not grasp."	John Berry
"Comfort ye, my people; speak ye peace, thus saith our God. Comfort those who sit in darkness, mourning 'neath their sorrow's load. For the glory of the Lord now o'er earth is shed abroad; and all flesh shall see the token that His word is never broken."	Isaiah 40:1-8 Bible
"After enlightenment, the laundry."	Josh Billings
"When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice."	Prince Otto
"Begin today! No matter how feeble the light, let it shine as best it may. The world may need just that quality of light which you have."	Henry C. Blinn
"'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it."	Elizabeth Bowen
"It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to some people that they hurry indoors and turn on the lights."	Elizabeth Bowen
"I never reprimand a boy in the evening-darkness and a troubled mind are a poor combination."	Frank L. Boyden
"On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him."	Buddha
"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."	Buddha
"'It is destiny' - phrase of the weak human heart! 'It is destiny' - dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit no destiny."	E. R. Bulwer-Lytton
"Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other."	Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
"Being a child is horrible. It is slightly better than being a tree or a piece of heavy machinery but not half as good as being a domestic cat."	Julie Burchill
"Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done."	Aaron Burr
"Would you, my dear young friends, like to be inside with the five wise virgins, or outside, alone and in the dark with the five foolish ones?."	Montagu Butler
"But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness -- each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked -- each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity."	Herbert Butterfield
"Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire."	George Gordon Byron
"The truth, as the light, makes blind."	Albert Camus
"Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself."	Truman Capote
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Dame Edna Everage	Danielle Donoho	Dbjanski
Deane Jordan	Deciderius Erasmus	Doris Lessing
Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross	Dr. Thomas Fuller	Dr. Viktor E(mil) Frankl
Dwight Lyman Moody	Earl Nightingale	Edna Saint Vincent Millay
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton	Elizabeth Bowen	Erica Mann Jong
Eric Idle	Eugène Ionesco	Euripides
E. L. Doctorow	E. R. Bulwer-Lytton	Ferdinand Hodler
Forest McDonald	Frank L. Boyden	Françoise d'Aubigné Maintenon
François Maurice Mitterrand	Fred Allen	Frederick Douglass
F(rancis) Scott	George Eliot	Georges Bataille
Georges Bernanos	George Gordon Byron	George Jean Nathan
Gilbert Keith Chesterton	Guy Lynch	Haniel Long
Hannah More	Harry Emerson Fosdick	Hazrat Inayat Khan
Helen Adams Keller	Henri-Frédéric Amiel	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry C. Blinn	Henry Louis Mencken	Herbert Butterfield
Homer	Horace Greeley	Ingrid Bergman
Isaac Asimov	Isaiah 40:1-8 Bible	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
James Albert Michener	James Arthur Baldwin	Janet Louise Holman
Jean Baudrillard	Jennie Jerome Churchill	Jesse Lair
Jesse Louis Jackson	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Milton
John Berry	John W(illiam) Gardner	Joseph Addison
Josh Billings	Julie Burchill	Juvenal
Kahlil Gibran	Katharine Houghton Hepburn	K. D. Lang
Lao-Tzu	Lyndon Baines Johnson	L. Frank Baum
L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.	Marcus Aelius Aurelius	Marcus Tullius Cicero
Margaret Mead	Marquis de Sade	Martin Luther
Martin Luther King, Jr.	Maurice Druon	Maurice Freehill
Maya Angelou	Michael J. Gelb	Michel Leiris
Michio Kushi	Miguel de Cervantes	Minnie Haskins
Mohammed Daud Khan	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	Montagu Butler
Morris Mandel	M. Hirschfield	Napoleon I
Nathaniel Hawthorne	Newt Gingrich	Og Mandino
Oliver Goldsmith	Oprah Winfrey	Peter Hoeg
Prince Otto	Quentin Crisp	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Richard J. Ferris	Richard Milhouse Nixon	Robertson Davies
Robert Maynard Hutchins	Saint Augustine	Adela Rogers St. Johns
Saint Thomas Aquinas	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Sam Ewing
Sarah McLachlan	Siddha Nagarjuna	Sir Francis Bacon
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill	Sophia Blanche Lyon Fahs	Sri da Avabhas
Susanna Moodie	Swedish Carol	Taylor Benson
Theodore M. Hesburgh	Thomas De Quincey	Tom Fitzgerald
Truman Capote	Victor Hugo	William Ellery Channing
William Hallman	William Hiram Foulkes	William H(oward) Gass
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