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Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.
“Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.”
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“I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am”
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“To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.”
― Pensées
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“Seldom can the heart be lonely,
If it seek a lonelier still;
Self-forgetting, seeking only
Emptier cups of love to fill.”
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If it seek a lonelier still;
Self-forgetting, seeking only
Emptier cups of love to fill.”
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“Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught on liberty. Up till then I had not been interested in the Church, but today I feel a great admiration for the Church, which alone has had the courage to struggle for spiritual truth and moral liberty”
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The Inklings was an informal literary discussion group associated with the University of Oxford, England, between the 1930s and the 1960s. Its most re ...more
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