#ness

But seek till ye find, and, whatever ye find for the present, let your last act be to lay and leave yourselves on the righteousness of His Son, expecting life through His name, according to the promise of the Father. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#act #expecting #father #find #his

I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness; and wait you, and cease to contend with these men that are gone from us, for there is nothing that shall convince them but judgment. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#contend #convince #gone #holiness #i

The secret of the Internet's success has been its openness to new services. ↗

— Edward Felten

#internet #new #openness #secret #services

Cheese is one of my great weaknesses, I could eat the stuff by the pound. ↗

— Helena Christensen

#could #eat #great #i #pound

Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech, and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights their forefathers had fought and died for. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#democracy #ettiquette #freedom #freedom-of-speech #funny

The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of war. ↗

— Rebecca Latimer Felton

#civil #civil war #conquered #feature #helplessness

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#bury #cannot #comes #construe #cunning

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#barrels #could #covered #emerged #follow

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#give #government #happiness #men #office

In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#basically #business #film #film business #honor