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John Roberts

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John is Currently Reading

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Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

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The Wild Robot (The Wild Robot, #1)

by Peter Brown

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Hannah Coulter

by Wendell Berry

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John’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Discipline and Other Sermons

Discipline and Other Sermons by Charles Kingsley

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DISCIPLINE AND OTHER SERMONS SERMON I. - DISCIPLINE (Preached at the Volunteer Camp, Wimbledon, July 14, 1867.) NUMBERS xxiv. 9. He couched, he lay down as a lion; and as a great lion. Who dare rouse him up? These were the words of the ...more

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John’s Quotes

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
― Tom Bodett

tags: happiness, hope, joy, love, wishing

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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, The Return of the King

tags: evil, future-inspirational

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