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"You never know God is all you need until God is all you have."
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"It takes a lot of courage to be yourself."
~Edward Cummings
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“It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.”
~J.R.R. Tolkien
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"No permanence is ours; we are a wave
That flows to fit whatever form it finds:
Through day or night, cathedral or the cave
We pass forever, craving form that binds."
~Hermann Hesse
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II
"Of all cults, that of the ancestors is the most legitimate, for the ancestors have made us what we are. A heroic past, great men, glory (by which I understand genuine glory), this is the social capital upon which one bases a national idea. To have common glories in the past and to have a common will in the present; to have performed great deeds together, to wish to perform still more—these are the essential conditions for being a people. One loves in proportion to the sacrifices to which one has consented, and in proportion to the ills that one has suffered. One loves the house that one has built and that one has handed down. The Spartan song—We are what you were; we will be what you are—is, in its simplicity, the abridged hymn of every patrie.”
~Ernest Renan
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Blue Winter
By Robert Francis
"Winter uses all the blues there are.
One shade of blue for water, one for ice,
Another blue for shadows over snow.
The clear or cloudy sky uses blue twice-
Both different blues. And hills row after row
Are colored blue according to how far.
You know the bluejay's double-blur device
Shows best when there are no green leaves to show.
And Sirius is a winterbluegreen star."
"What fire could ever equal the sunshine of a winter's day?"
Henry David Thoreau
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"A nation is a soul, a spiritual principle. Two things, which in truth are but one, constitute this soul or spiritual principle. One lies in the past, one in the present. One is the possession in common of a rich legacy of memories; the other is present-day consent, the desire to live together, the will to perpetuate the value of the heritage that one has received in an undivided form. Man, Gentlemen, does not improvise. The nation, like the individual, is the culmination of a long past of endeavours, sacrifice, and devotion..."
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"The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted."
~Søren Kierkegaard
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"People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to forego speech altogether and, just like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually."
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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