Quotemeal: Aug. 21st, 2025

Thursday, August 21, 2025

"Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds."
— William Shakespeare

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"And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson —
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— St. Ambrose —
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow."
— Helen Keller —

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Illustration of William Shakespeare — "Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds."

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