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    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    “Give yourself unto reading. The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains, proves that he has no brains of his own. You need to read.

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    We are quite persuaded that the very best way for you to be spending your leisure time, is to be either reading or praying. You may get much instruction from books which afterwards you may use as a true weapon in your Lord and Master’s service. Paul cries, “Bring the books” — join in the cry.”
    ― Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    tags: reading
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    Jonathan Edwards
    “Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.”
    ― Jonathan Edwards
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Aslan" said Lucy "you're bigger".
    "That is because you are older, little one" answered he.
    "Not because you are?"
    "I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian
    tags: christianity
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    Anaïs Nin
    “How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: independence, women
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Chuck Black
    “All who hear are called. All who are called are able.”
    ― Chuck Black, Kingdom's Quest
    tags: christian, chuck-black, fiction, kingdoms-quest, the-kingdom-series
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Roald Dahl
    “So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
    ― Roald Dahl
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    Erin Hunter
    “Silverstream: You idiot!!! What are you doing in my territory???
    Graystripe:...Drowning?
    Silverstream: Can't you do that in your own territory?
    Graystripe: Ah, but who would rescue me there?”
    ― Erin Hunter
    tags: fire-and-ice, graystripe, sarcasm, silverstream, warriors
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    Erin Hunter
    “You know Yellowfang, don't you? she was cranky, stubborn, impatient-and the most loyal cat you will ever meet.”
    ― Erin Hunter, Warriors: Cats of the Clans
    tags: warriors
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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    George Burns
    “Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.”
    ― George Burns
    tags: humor, politics
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: inspirational, philosophical, politics, religion, religious
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    Anne Enright
    “People do not change, they are merely revealed.”
    ― Anne Enright, The Gathering
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    Norman Rush
    “Literature is humanity talking to itself.”
    ― Norman Rush
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    Ivan Turgenev
    “If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
    ― Ivan Turgenev
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    J. Nozipo Maraire
    “Until we begin to put pen to paper, we historically do not exist.”
    ― J. Nozipo Maraire, Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter
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    Confucius
    “Study the past if you would define the future.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: direction, future, history, learning, moving-forward, past, strategy
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    D.H. Lawrence
    “A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
    ― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
    tags: life, living, philosophy, women
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Beryl Bainbridge
    “The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour”
    ― Beryl Bainbridge
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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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    Sharon Olds
    “There is something in me maybe someday
    to be written; now it is folded, and folded,
    and folded, like a note in school.”
    ― Sharon Olds
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  • #31
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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