"Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day."
-Thornton Wilder
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"Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success."
-Thornton Wilder
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"Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday."
-Thornton Wilder
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"Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder."
-Thornton Wilder
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"Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous."
-Thornton Wilder
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"Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home."
-Thornton Wilder
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"Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is."
-Hans Urs von Balthasar
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"At the end of the day, you know, love does not happen between two perfect people as much as we would wish."
-Hillary Clinton
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"Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory."
-Milan Kundera
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"I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump."
-Zora Neale Hurston
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"A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair."
-Abraham Joshua Heschel
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"The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death."
-E. M. Forster
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