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A habit leads a man so gently in the beginning that he does not perceive he is led - with what silken threads and down what pleasant avenues it leads him! By and by, the soft silk threads become iron chains, and the pleasant avenues Avernus!
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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God breathes through us so completely... so gently we hardly feel it... yet, it is our everything.


John Coltrane
Tags: God Our Feel
It is my hope that during my brief passage through this universe, that I may share with you the joy of hearing the music of the stars... knowing that the composer was from a distant place and the songs were written eons ago, which now fall gently on this place for all to hear.
Richard H. Baker
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We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
Hal Boyle
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In addition to giving comfort and joy, art also has the miraculous ability to let us live in other men's skins, to test our perceptions and beliefs against theirs, and perhaps to be changed as a result. It does this by portraying the world creatively, heightening our perception and enriching our understanding of things as they are.
Terry Teachout
Tags: Men Our Things
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.


Henry Ward Beecher
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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Willa Cather
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Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind.


George Grosz
Tags: Peace Were Us
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Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.


Marvin J. Ashton
Tags: Me Always Us
For the Holy Ghost blesses us with optimism and wisdom at times of challenge that we simply cannot muster on our own.
Sheri L. Dew
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God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually.


John Newton
Tags: God Most Part
Food plays a large part in our weekend, but on a Friday evening, I'll make us something simple for tea. I might have a wee glass of wine.
Victoria Pendleton
Tags: Food Our Make
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Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.


Marianne Williamson
I look back on Joy Division very fondly indeed. I know that, of course, the band came to a tragic end, but that does not change the fact that Joy Division was a great band to be a part of.
Peter Hook
Tags: Great Change Know
There are so many opportunities to see the sun go down in the evening and the sun come up in the morning. The colors change on the trees, on the snow. I'm surrounded by people who are friendly and helpful.
Burt Shavitz
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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.


Max Frisch
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We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.


Mary Gordon
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Iris Murdoch
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Fish butchering means a lot to me as a chef; I take pride in it and get a lot of joy from filleting fish, working with fish, breaking down fish, trying to understand fish.
Wylie Dufresne
Tags: Me Get Lot
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Being in 'Us Weekly' does not make you famous.


Bradley Cooper
Tags: Famous You Make