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Beauty - in projection and perceiving - is 99.9% attitude. ~Grey Livingston


If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart. ~Edmund Wilson


Man's heart away from nature becomes hard. ~Standing Bear


No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. ~Samuel Johnson


We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them. ~Lemony Snicket


Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me. ~Proverbs 30:8


A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb


The ear of jealousy heareth all things. ~The Bible (Apocrypha), Wisdom of Solomon 1:10


You are your own judge. The verdict is up to you. ~Astrid Alauda


The Christian faith makes it possible for us nobly to accept that which cannot be changed, and to meet disappointments and sorrow with an inner poise, and to absorb the most intense pain without abandoning our sense of hope. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963


Too many so-called historians are really 'hysterians'; their thinking is more visceral than cerebral. When their duties as citizens clash with their responsibilities as scholars, Clio frequently takes a back seat. ~Thomas A. Bailey


Lord! when you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book. ~Christopher Morley


Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop. ~Charles de Gaulle


And as the seasons come and go, here's something you might like to know. There are fairies everywhere: under bushes, in the air, playing games just like you play, singing through their busy day. So listen, touch, and look around - in the air and on the ground. And if you watch all nature's things, you might just see a fairy's wing. ~Author Unknown


The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words. ~E.M. Cioran


You should never kiss a girl unless you have enough bucks to buy her a big ring and her own VCR, 'cause she'll want to have videos of the wedding. ~Jim, age 10


Debt is the worst poverty. ~Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732


Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weakness. ~Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise du Deffand, Letters to Voltaire


Let God's promises shine on your problems. ~Corrie Ten Boom