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#1

“He who works with his hands is a laborer.
He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.”
― Saint Francis of Assisi

tags: art, craft, labor

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#2

“[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen, Catharine and Other Writings

tags: books, craft, enjoyment, entertainment, writing

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#3

“Angry people are not always wise.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: anger, jane-austen, wisdom

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#4

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

tags: romantic

5552 likes

#5

“Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
― Jane Austen

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#6

“The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.”
― Jane Austen, Love and Friendship

tags: romance

2885 likes

#7

“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
― Jane Austen

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#8

“Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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#9

“My idea of good company...is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.'
'You are mistaken,' said he gently, 'that is not good company, that is the best.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

tags: anne-eliot, good-company, jane-austen, persuasion

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#10

“All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one: you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone!”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

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#11

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."

[Meditations Divine and Moral]”
― Anne Bradstreet, The Works of Anne Bradstreet

tags: adversity, appreciation, hardship, inspirational, life, prosperity, seasons, spring, winter

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#12

“Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

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#13

“One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.”
― Golda Meir, My Life

tags: censorship, history, orwellian, past, present

308 likes

#14

“Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.”
― Salman Rushdie

tags: censorship, freedom

243 likes

#15

“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."

[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]”
― Cyril Connolly

tags: faithfulness, popularity, populism, principles, standards, writing

815 likes

#16

“Follow Christ for His own sake, if you follow Him at all. Be thorough, be real, be honest, be sound, be whole-hearted. If you have any religion at all, let your religion be real. See that you do not sin the sin of Lot's wife.”
― J.C. Ryle, Holiness: Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots

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#17

“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”
― Thomas Sowell

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