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“People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.”
― As I Lay Dying
― As I Lay Dying
“Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength.”
― Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
― Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
“If it were possible for us to see further than our knowledge extends and out a little over the outworks of our surmising, perhaps we should then bear our sorrows with greater confidence than our joys.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow, and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune's control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”
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“History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past”
― Ways of Seeing
― Ways of Seeing
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