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Rosiness or Gloomy Gray: On Viewing the World #2

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have curiosity to know why this is so: but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain and hunger, and mosquitos, and silly people.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #43

If I had but two loaves of bread, I would sell one and buy hyacinths, for they would feed my soul.
-The Koran

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #5

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, become great.
-Mark Twain
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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #53

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
-Confucius

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“But we are more than logical” #3

Anyone who angers you conquers you.
Sister Elizabeth Kenny
A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each of these quotations could be true for the same person-but in different situations. When might each be appropriate? How could each be abused?

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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #19

Blessed are they who heal us of self-despisings. Of all the services which can be done to [men and women], I know of none more precious.
-William Hale White

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Of Stranded Dragons and Whitewashed Cows #2

A whitewashed cow will not remain white for long.
-Chinese proverb

This proverb refers to both actual whitewash and the idea of whitewash as a figurative coverup. (Look up “whitewash” if you’re unsure of its meaning)

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Giving Your Word(s): On Writing and Talking #3

… One can never be alone enough when one writes… there can never be enough silence when one writes… even night is not night enough.
-Franz Kafka

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“If you wish to know what a person is…” #2

One can no more judge a [person] by the actions of an hour than the climate of a country by the temperature of a day.
-J. Petit-Senn

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“How do you make a life?…” #11

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
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Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.
-Vida D. Scudder
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