Quotemeal: Jan. 3rd, 2020

Friday, January 3, 2020

"Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world."
— Goethe

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"Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: "It might have been!""
— John Greenleaf Whittier —
"We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable."
— Alexander Solzhenitsyn —
"Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame, if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago."
— John Wesley —
"The heart is rich when it is content, and it is always content when its desires are fixed on God."
— Miguel Cordero-Munoz —

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Illustration of Goethe — "Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world."

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