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“You must write throughout the whole of your intellectual life. In the first place one writes for oneself, to see clearly into one’...

“When thou dost purpose aught, within thy power, Be sure to do it, though it be but small: Constancy knits the bones, and makes us ...

“Talk of mysteries! Think of our life in nature, daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it; rocks, trees, wind on our ...

“Whistling in the dark, I see the lights all over town, And I keep walking up and down, While I am whistling in the dark.” ~ Bert...

“Hands that make each day begin again and bring to light our distant dreams.” ~ The Monks of Weston Priory, Hands For the wr...

“And the tougher it gets And the more that I sweat And the harder it fights And the deeper it bites I’m one step closer to home; ...

“Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal, or a window opening on something other than itself...

“Then said Hopeful, ‘My brother, these troubles and distresses that you go through in these waters, are no sign that God hath forsa...