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  • #1
    C.S. Lewis
    “We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

  • #2
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    “Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.”
    Ludwig van Beethoven

  • #3
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    “But no thoughtful man's life is uninteresting or devoid of marvels. A sincere life cannot be empty of memorable occurrences.”
    Charles Spurgeon

  • #4
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    “Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to tremendous difficulties.”
    Spurgeon

  • #5
    Alexandre Dumas
    “Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.”
    Alexandre Dumas

  • #6
    George Herbert
    “Storms make oaks take deeper root.”
    George Herbert

  • #7
    Louisa May Alcott
    “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

  • #8
    Charles R. Swindoll
    “The devil, darkness, and death may swagger and boast, the pangs of life will sting for a while longer, but don't worry; the forces of evil are breathing their last. Not to worry...He's risen!”
    Swindoll Charles R.

  • #9
    Andrew Murray
    “A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me.”
    Andrew Murray, Jesus Himself

  • #10
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #11
    “In the heartfelt mercy of our God, the dawn from on high will visit us, to shine on those sitting in darkness, in the shadow of death, to guide our feet to the way of peace.”
    Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

  • #12
    Abigail Adams
    “Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”
    Abigail Adams

  • #13
    Albert Einstein
    “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #14
    Sophocles
    “A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.”
    Sophocles, Antigone

  • #15
    John Milton
    “And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie,
    That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.”
    John Milton, The Complete Poetry

  • #16
    Aristotle
    “Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.”
    Aristotle

  • #17
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”
    Martin Luther King Jr.



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