#lend

Even God lends a hand to honest boldness. ↗

— Menander

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If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes. ↗

— Michelangelo

#beauty #day #end #eyes #flame

The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me. ↗

— Ida Tarbell

#against #belonged #chance #circle #circles

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind! ↗

— William James

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It is conventional to call "monster" any blending of dissonant elements. I call "monster" every original inexhaustible beauty. ↗

— Alfred Jarry

#beauty #blending #call #conventional #elements

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#give #neither #nor #occupation #splendor

The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light. ↗

— Pope John XXIII

#church #council #daybreak #forerunner #light

The fact that so many of your people are today residents and citizens of the United States, lending their influence to our civic and economic life, which has meant so much to our development. ↗

— Frank B. Kellogg

#civic #development #economic #economic life #fact

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress. ↗

— Charles Kettering

#every #every time #ideas #leaf #new

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

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