Quotemeal: Sep. 20th, 2008

Saturday, September 20, 2008

"No pleasure is comparable to standing on the vantage-ground of truth."
— Francis Bacon

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"We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in."
— John Milton —
"Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's successes."
— Oscar Wilde —
"It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found..."
— George Eliot —
"There's nothing like a good crisis to increase my energy and remind me how much I need God."
— Anne Christian Buchanan —

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Illustration of Francis Bacon — "No pleasure is comparable to standing on the vantage-ground of truth."

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