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St. Francis of Assisi

by G.K. Chesterton

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The Story of the Volsungs & Niblungs: With Certain Songs from the Elder Edda

by Anonymous

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East of Eden

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Cleo’s Quotes

“All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.”
― George Orwell

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“Every word is either current, or strange, or metaphorical, or ornamental, or newly-coined, or lengthened, or contracted, or altered.”
― Aristotle, Poetics

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“A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.”
― Booker T. Washington

tags: evil, inclusiveness, truth

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“I am overwhelmed sometimes and feel a great deal of wonder at words, just simple words and how deeply we can touch each other with them, though I know that most of the time language is the most abused of all human abilities or traits.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, The Delicacy and Strength of Lace

tags: compassion, gift-of-words, healing, humanity, intuition, language, overwhelm, words

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“Teach me to feel another’s woe,
To hide the fault I see;
That mercy I to others show,
That mercy show to me.

(from The Universal Prayer)”
― Alexander Pope

tags: fault, god, love, mercy, prayer, understanding, woe

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