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Helen Hunt Jackson: Find me the...

Helen Hunt Jackson: Find me the...

Find me the men on earth who care
Enough for faith or creed today
To seek a barren wilderness
For simple...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: That indescribable expression...

Helen Hunt Jackson: That indescribable expression...

That indescribable expression peculiar to people who hope they have not been asleep, but know they...

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George Eliot: In the schoolroom...

George Eliot: In the schoolroom...

In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts...

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George Eliot: Delicious autumn! My...

George Eliot: Delicious autumn! My...

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the...

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George Eliot: People who can't...

George Eliot: People who can't...

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

Source:...

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George Eliot: Oh may I...

George Eliot: Oh may I...

Oh may I join the choir invisible
Of those immortal dead who live again
In minds made better by their...

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Annie Dillard: We wake, if...

Annie Dillard: We wake, if...

We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Nobody had ever...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Nobody had ever...

Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary...

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Susan Sontag: This city is...

Susan Sontag: This city is...

This city is neither a jungle nor the moon. . . . In long shot: a cosmic smudge, a conglomerate of bleeding energies....

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Susan Sontag: With more people,...

Susan Sontag: With more people,...

With more people, there are more voices to tune out.

Source: In Webster's...

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Simone de Beauvoir: One's life has...

Simone de Beauvoir: One's life has...

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation...

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Ingrid Bengis: Imagination has always...

Ingrid Bengis: Imagination has always...

Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.

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Virgilia Peterson: Perhaps it is...

Virgilia Peterson: Perhaps it is...

Perhaps it is the expediency in the political eye that blinds it.

Source: A Matter...

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Susan B Anthony: I can't say...

Susan B Anthony: I can't say...

I can't say that the college-bred woman is the most contented woman. The broader her mind the more she understands the...

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Rebecca Harding Davis: While the light...

Rebecca Harding Davis: While the light...

While the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough. Whitman...

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Fran Lebowitz: Humility is no...

Fran Lebowitz: Humility is no...

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

Source: Metropolitan Life,...

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Helen Rowland: A wise woman...

Helen Rowland: A wise woman...

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Good communication is...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Good communication is...

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

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Hortense Calisher: When anything gets...

Hortense Calisher: When anything gets...

When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.

Source: Herself, Pt. IV,...

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Maya Angelou: My great hope...

Maya Angelou: My great hope...

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to...

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