"Fill yourselves first and then only will you be able to give to others."
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"The Kingdom of Heaven, O man, requires no other price than yourself. The value of it is yourself. Give yourself for it and you shall have it."
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"[The poets' role is that of] capturing on their instruments the secret stir of life in the air and giving it voice in the music of prophecy"
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"If you give me a short shot I will attack you. I'm not a baseliner who rallies. I try to get the point over with."
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"Chiropractic gives me the flexibility I need to keep in the game."
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"In so far as divine love beautifies our souls. And makes us pleasing to His divine Majesty, it is called grace; in so far as it gives us strength to do good, it is called charity; but when it reaches such a degree of perfection, that it makes us not only do the good, but do so carefully, frequently and readily, then it is called devotion."
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"The moment the door opened I knew an ass-kicking was inevitable. Whether I'd be giving it or receiving it was still a bit of a mystery."
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"Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes."
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"We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten."
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"Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms."
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"Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life."
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"Scandal often does as much harm to the listeners as to those who devise it, even if it were to do no other harm than disturb the mind, as it does, and give rise to temptations to speak or write about it to others."
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"I had a new idea in my head... this time it's just simply my bedroom, only here colour is to do everything, and, giving by its simplification a grander style to things, is to be suggestive here of rest or of sleep in general. In a word, to look at the picture ought to rest the brain or rather the imagination."
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"It may be true that there is no God here, but there must be one not far off, and at such a moment one feels His presence; which comes to the same as saying (and I readily give this sincere profession of faith): I believe in God, and that it is His wi"
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"Animals have sections in their stomachs which enable them to digest food without mastication, but human beings are supposed to chew their food before they swallow it down... So chew your food and give your salivary glands a chance to function!"
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"To contact the cosmic giggle, to have the flow of casuistry begin to give off synchronistic ripples, whitecaps in the billows of the coincidental ether, if you will. To achieve that, a precondition is a kind of unconsciousness, a kind of drifting, a certain taking-your-eye-off-the-ball, a certain assumptions that things are simpler than they are, almost always precedes what Mircea Eliade called ‘the rupture of plane’ that indicates that there is an archetypal world, an archetypal power behind profane appearances."
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"Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil."
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"Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison."
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"I think the sense of community that exists with all the characters - that's the answer. The fact that they have found a family in their friends. It does give some depth and meaning to their lives."
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"Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence"
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