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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"Guided by One Mind, our lesser minds unite."
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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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"Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything." Goethe
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"Great forces are in process of endeavouring to turn to constructive ends the apparent chaos of our time and are even using our confusion and despair for the furtherance of the Divine Plan."
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"If you wish to be loved, love." Seneca
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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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"In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; rejoice in it; as you can, try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes." Ruskin
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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 most disastrous times have produced the greatest minds. The purest metal comes of the most ardent furnace, the most brilliant lightning comes of the darkest clouds." Chateaubriand
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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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"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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"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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"The seeds of the Divine mind [are] sown in man." Ovid
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"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." Goethe
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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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"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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"He who loves best his fellow-man is loving God the holiest way he can." Alice Cary
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"The more a man knows, the more he forgives." Anonymous
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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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"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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