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I remember thinking, That's what I need - and that hope was in Jesus Christ. ↗

#hope #i #i remember #jesus #jesus christ

I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton. ↗

Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#easier #familiar #glorified #hours #listen

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants. ↗

— Henry Adams

#come #damnation #god #goodness #happy

I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it. ↗

— Kathy Acker

#i #i write #me #out #remember

So this was love then—wanting to give only pleasure to the beloved; constantly searching your mind for love tokens that would bring a smile to her lips or a sparkle to her eyes. He deeply regretted it had come so late in life, but since his heart’s desire was Eleanor who was so much younger than he, it could have been no other way. He was grateful it had come at all. ↗

— Virginia Henley The Dragon and the Jewel

#may-december-relationships #life

I think a cool band name would be War Dwarf. Of course, I’m entirely too tall and peaceful to be a member. Not to mention nonmusical.  ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#band-name #funny #height #humor #life

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. ↗

— Abigail Adams

#could #hands #husbands #into #men

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#ever #full #hold #into #just

As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie. ↗