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I am fully sensible that an historical romance, founded on the
House of Saxe Cobourg, might be much more to the purpose of ...
Jane Austen
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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose ...
Charles Horton Cooley
freedom
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But this fully answered John's purpose toward Betty, for as she did not understand, she highly admired him; and he concluded by ag ...
Sarah Fielding
education | sexism | men and women
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The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, "as a dream doth flatter." It heroe ...
Susanne K. Langer
myths | fairy tales
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the Omnibus
Had no real purpose till it got to us.
Never believe it.
Robert Frost
mankind | purpose
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The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.
Friedrich Nietzsche
punishment
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Make thick my blood,
Stop up th' access and passage to remorse, ...
Shakespeare
ruthlessness | human nature | remorse
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To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: a time to be born and a time to die; a time to plan ...
unknown author
seasons | time
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time ...
unknown author
opportunities | seasons | harvests
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So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. The one who plants and the on ...
unknown author
humility
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