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    John Steinbeck
    “A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.”
    ― Charlotte Bronte
    tags: inspirational
    467 likes

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    Charlotte Brontë
    “The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë
    tags: companionship, loneliness, marriage, single, spinsterhood
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.”
    ― Charlotte Bronte
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    Walt Whitman
    “Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”
    ― Walt Whitman
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, inspirational, positive-attitude
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    Walt Whitman
    “These are the days that must happen to you.”
    ― Walt Whitman
    tags: live-in-the-moment, live-life
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    Walt Whitman
    “Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.”
    ― Walt Whitman
    tags: inspirational, wonder
    248 likes

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    Walt Whitman
    “Nothing can happen more beautiful than death. ”
    ― Walt Whitman
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    Mark Twain
    “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: death, life
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    Mark Twain
    “Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: happiness, sanity
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    Mark Twain
    “Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: darkness, human-nature, moon
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    Mark Twain
    “Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: morals
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    Mark Twain
    “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: courage
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    Mark Twain
    “Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: inspirational, kindness
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    Mark Twain
    “Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: definitions, forgiveness
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    Mark Twain
    “Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: animals, dogs, heaven
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: love-loss
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: happiness, satisfaction, serenity
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
    tags: christian-behavior, christianity, pacifism, religion
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: faith, forgiveness, hope, inspirational, love
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “If there were no God, there would be no atheists.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: ethics, firearms
    740 likes

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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly,”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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  • #28
    G.K. Chesterton
    “For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: innocence, justice, mercy, wickedness
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  • #29
    G.K. Chesterton
    “We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: fear, god
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  • #30
    G.K. Chesterton
    “We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: country
    311 likes



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