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When we hew or delve: After-comers cannot guess the beauty been.


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I do not think I have ever seen anything more beautiful than the bluebell I have been looking at. I know the beauty of our Lord by it.

I do not think I have ever seen anything more beautiful than the bluebell I have been looking at. I know the beauty of our Lord by it.



Your personal boundaries protect the inner core of your identity and your right to choices.

Your personal boundaries protect the inner core of your identity and your right to choices.



Glory be to God for dappled things.

Glory be to God for dappled things.



Nothing is so beautiful as spring- When weeds in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush.

Nothing is so beautiful as spring- When weeds in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush.



As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame



The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.



For Christ plays in ten thousand places,/ Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his/ To the Father through the features of men’s faces.

For Christ plays in ten thousand places,/ Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his/ To the Father through the features of men’s faces.



ELECTED Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlèd ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music that I care to hear.

ELECTED Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlèd ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music that I care to hear.



Let Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east.

Let Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east.



What I do is me, for that I came.

What I do is me, for that I came.





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Nothing is as changeable as our own life.

Nothing is as changeable as our own life.



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You should be able to have good matches against anybody.



If you want to be an artist, truly try to write what you believe, and if you write when you don't believe then you should try to become an actor.

If you want to be an artist, truly try to write what you believe, and if you write when you don't believe then you should try to become an actor.



I'm a bit of a hippie.

I'm a bit of a hippie.



Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive them at their current and not at their real value.

Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive them at their current and not at their real value.



Is the cinema more important than life?

Is the cinema more important than life?



I want my world to be fun. No parents, no rules, no nothing. Like, no one can stop me. No one can stop me.

I want my world to be fun. No parents, no rules, no nothing. Like, no one can stop me. No one can stop me.



Every idol, if you scratch it, is a mirror. We worship ourselves.

Every idol, if you scratch it, is a mirror. We worship ourselves.



Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!

Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!




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