Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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From the first opening of our eyes, it is the light that attracts us. We clutch aimlessly with our baby fingers at the gossamer-motes in the sunbeam, and we die reaching out after an ineffable blending of earthly and heavenly beauty which we shall never fully comprehend.

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If an apple blossom or a ripe apple could tell its own story, it would be, still more than its own, the story of the sunshine that smiled upon it, of…

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Every true friend is a glimpse of God.

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Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.

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The religion of our fathers overhung us children like the shadow of a mighty tree against the trunk of which we rested, while we looked up in wonder …

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What is the meaning of 'gossip?' Doesn't it originate with sympathy, an interest in one's neighbor, degenerating into idle curiosity and love of tatt…

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Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard thing…

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He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

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There is something in the place where we were born that holds us always by the heart-strings.

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The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.

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