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“Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.”

Thornton Wilder · Faith

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It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

Beauty

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Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Work

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When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

Happiness

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We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

Death