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No one thinks of Winter when

the grass is green.

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-Rudyard Kipling

pablo picasso

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Comfort ye,

comfort ye my people,

saith your God.

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-Isaiah 40:1

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Climate is what we expect,

weather is what we get.

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-Mark Twain

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We are sinners,

it is true.

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-Martin Luther, last words

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A man seldom thinks with more

earnestness of anything than he

does of his dinner.

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-Samuel Johnson

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Without God to draw aside the

curtain I would be helpless.

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-George Washington Carver

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The public is never well

enough informed to have

the right to an opinion.

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-T. S. Eliot

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What would life be if we had no

courage to attempt anything?

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-Vincent van Gogh

m. c. escher

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Avoid foolish questions.

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-Titus 3:9

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I'd rather be rich

than stupid.

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-Jack Handey

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We are shaped and fashioned

by what we love.

*

-Goethe

annie huntington

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Don't let it bring you down;

It's only castles burning,

Just find someone who's turning,

And you will come around.

*

-Neil Young

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A nickel ain't worth

a dime anymore.

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-Yogi Berra

jeffrey becom

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Growth itself contains

the germ of happiness.

*

-Pearl S. Buck

jude mcconkey

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In seed time learn,

in harvest teach,

in winter enjoy.

*

-William Blake

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Whoever conceals his transgressions

will not prosper, but he who confesses

and forsakes them will find mercy.

*

-Proverbs 28:13

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Lord knows when the cold wind

blows it'll turn your head around.

*

-James Taylor

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Don't be agnostic - be something.

*

-Robert Frost

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Big Brother is watching you.

*

-George Orwell

paul klee

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All our reasoning ends

in surrender to feeling.

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-Blaise Pascal

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He looked at me as if I was a side

dish he hadn't ordered.

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-Ring Lardner

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8A mole can tunnel 300 feet in

one night.

8Bats always turn to the left when

exiting a cave.

8The only bird that can fly backwards

is a hummingbird.

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Oh how I love your law.

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Psalm 119:97

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Go often to the house

of thy friend, for weeds

choke the overgrown path.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

*

In Mexico we have a word for sushi: bait.

*

-Jose Simons

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Keep on rockin' in the free world.

*

-Neil Young

william bouguereau

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A sweet child is the

sweetest thing in nature.

*

-Charles Lamb

*

There is no verbal vitamin

more potent than praise.

*

-Federick B. Harris

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All happiness depends on

a leisurely breakfast.

*

-John Gunther

*

I will pour water upon him

that is thirsty.

*

-Isaiah 44:3

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Sex is good, but not as good as

fresh, sweet corn.

*

-Garrison Keillor

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Give me golf clubs, fresh air,

and a beautiful partner, and you

can keep the clubs and fresh air.

*

-Jack Benny

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All I really, really want our love to do is to

bring out the best in me and in you too.

*

-Joni Mitchell

*

He who knows best knows

how little he knows.

*

-Thomas Jefferson

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Debt is the slavery of the free.

*

-Publilius Syrus

*

As a child my family's menu

consisted of two choices:

take it or leave it.

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-Buddy Hackett

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Nothing in my hand I bring,

Simply to thy cross I cling.

*

-Augustus Toplady, Rock of Ages

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I said he was a genius.

I never said he was

smart.

*

-Groucho Marx (HT:Lowen)

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Facts do not cease to exist because

they are ignored.

*

-Aldous Huxley

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Rest has cured more people than

all the medicine in the world.

*

-Harold Reilly

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Everything has been said better

than we can put it ourselves.

*

-George Eliot

*

Psychoanalysis is confession

without absolution.

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-G. K. Chesterton

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Progress might have been

all right once, but it's gone

on too long.

*

-Ogden Nash

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The gospel is not a message about what

we need to do for God, but about what God

has done for us.

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-Kevin DeYoung

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You cannot create prosperity by law,

but you can very easily destroy prosperity

by law.

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-Theodore Roosevelt

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Obstacles are those frightful things you

see when you take your eyes off the goal.

*

-Hannah More

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There is not a moment

without some duty.

*

-Cicero

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Inaction saps the vigors of the mind.

*

-Leonardo da Vinci

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The third day comes a frost,

a killing frost.

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-William Shakespeare

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We need education in the obvious

more than investigation of the

obscure.

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-Oliver Wendell Holmes

27 Q. What do you understand by the providence of God?
A. Providence is the almighty and ever present power of God by which he upholds, as with his hand, heaven and earth and all creatures, and so rules them that leaf and blade, rain and drought, fruitful and lean years, food and drink, health and sickness, prosperity and poverty—all things, in fact, come to us not by chance but from his fatherly hand.

28 Q. How does the knowledge of God’s creation and providence help us?
A. We can be patient when things go against us, thankful when things go well, and for the future we can have good confidence in our faithful God and Father that nothing will separate us from his love. All creatures are so completely in his hand that without his will they can neither move nor be moved.

-Heidelberg Catechism, 1563