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A tree is best measured when it is down - and so it is with people.


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Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits.



Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.



There is an eagle in me that wants to soar.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar.



Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.



Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.



Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.

Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.



It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?



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Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.



Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.



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Purity lives and derives its life solely from the Spirit of God.



For many people the reason why they're idiots is not necessarily that their brain doesn't work well, it's that they got in a terrible pattern.

For many people the reason why they're idiots is not necessarily that their brain doesn't work well, it's that they got in a terrible pattern.



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