A good excercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.

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The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it unfriendly. It is simply indifferent.

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There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

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Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

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It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

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Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.

John Andrew Holmes in Wisdom in Small Doses
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

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Evil is a fact not to be explained away, but to be accepted and accepted not to be endured, but to be conquered. It is a challenge neither to our reason nor to our patience, but to our courage.

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Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.

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