Many / One
A database of 11,000+ illuminated guiding quotations in 40 categories from 600+ inspired books by our most brilliant and influential authors.
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"When we consider we are bound to be serviceable to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall perceive there is a common tie of nature and relation between us." Marcus Aurelius
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"We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion." William Penn
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"Whatever is to make us better and happy, God has placed either openly before us or close to us." Seneca
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"As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you, in a book, or a friend, or, best of all, in your own thoughts, the eternal thought speaking in your thought." George Macdonald
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"You and I [are] even now at home in immortality." Louise Driscoll, 'Hold Fast Your Dreams'
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"Our great thoughts, our great affections, the truths of our life, never leave us. Surely they can not separate from our consciousness…and are of their nature divine and immortal." William Makepeace Thackeray
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"If you wish to be loved, love." Seneca
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"Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds." Goethe
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"Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire – conscience." George Washington
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"To the eyes of the man of imagination, Nature is Imagination itself. As a man is, so he sees." William Blake
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"The love you liberate breeds greater love everywhere it goes. It's contagious. In the long run it travels around the world." George Matthew Adams, 'The Love You Liberate'
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"There is a destiny that makes us brothers; none goes his way alone: all that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own." Edwin Markham, 'A Creed'
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"He who loves best his fellow-man is loving God the holiest way he can." Alice Cary
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"I walk the meadows by some gliding stream, and there contemplate the lilies that take no care, and those very many other little living creatures that are not only created, but fed by the goodness of the God of Nature, and therefore I trust in Him." Izaak Walton
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"Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away, but love stays with us. Love is God." Lew Wallace
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"I am not dreaming. I am not deluded. Nearer to the grave new light streams for me. We shall continue to exist. We shall see each other again." Goethe
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"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." Goethe
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"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity….scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable." Addison
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"No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness." Phillips Brooks
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"There was never yet a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." Benjamin Franklin
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"Truth never yet fell dead in the streets: it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold." Theodore Parker
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