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There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers. ↗

— Grantland Rice

#dearth #flowers #gather #kindness #only

You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect. ↗

— Ernest Renan

#comfort #elect #fact #great #inwardly

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. ↗

— Jules Renard

#failure #laziness #only #others #our

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right. ↗

— Jules Renard

#being #lonely #right #try #you

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire. ↗

— Jules Renard

#completely #entire #moments #places #sees

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. ↗

— Jules Renard

#earn #money #only #profession #ridiculous

Returning to South Carolina meant getting a normal job in a normal town with normal people and marrying a normal person. I wanted the glamour and opportunity of the world. ↗

— Donna Rice

#getting #glamour #i #job #marrying

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins. ↗

— Jules Renard

#coins #currency #making #making up #many

I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

#compliment #distance #funny #give #i

We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war. ↗

— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

#camps #cause #conquest #continual #cultivation