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«Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance...is a celebration of that miracle.»
«Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.»
Author: Sidney Lanier | About: Virtue | Keywords: acquired, endeavor, rests, wholly
«The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence»
«When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be -- I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought or grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.»
«Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.»
«Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion -- and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion... while truth again reverts to a new minority.»
«Who seeks a faultless friend rests friendless»
Author: Proverb | About: Friendship | Keywords: faultless, friendless, rests, seeks
«Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.»
Author: Thomas Paine (Writer) | About: Praise, Virtue | Keywords: acquired, encourage, endeavor, rests, wholly

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