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• Parents should teach their children to pray. The child learns both from what the parents do and what they say. The child who sees a mother or a father pass through the trials of life with fervent prayer to God and then hears a sincere testimony that God answered in kindness will remember what he or she saw and heard. When trials come, that individual will be prepared.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Mother, Kindness, Prayer

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• Fervent seeking after God with the whole heart, without which no one can know Him, has always been the mark of His true followers.

  Dave Hunt

  Heart, Followers, Mark

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• I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.

  James Van Allen

  Space, Quality, Cost

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• The war photographer's most fervent wish is for unemployment

  Robert Capa

  War, Wish, Unemployment

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• Don't let our outside labels or how fervent we look or zealous we are or how righteous we seem; that's not how you measure yourself against other people. Everyone is a child of God; if we really believed that, we'd treat each other better.

  Mitch Albom

  Children, People, Zealous

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• The sky may be overcast today with clouds, but a fervent prayer to God is enough to dispel them.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Prayer, Clouds

  Mahatma Gandhi (1975). “Collected Works”

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• And I do further recommend to my fellow-citizens aforesaid, that on that occasion they do reverently humble themselves in the dust, and from thence offer up penitent and fervent prayers and supplications to the great Disposer of events for a return of the inestimable blessings of peace, union, and harmony throughout the land which it has pleased him to assign as a dwelling-place for ourselves and for our posterity throughout all generations.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Peace, Prayer, Humble

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1403, Jazzybee Verlag

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• When we remove the snowdrift piled up over Chekhov in recent years, we uncover a man profoundly agitated by social problems; a writer whose social ideals are the same as those we live by; a philosophy of the divinity of man, of fervent faith in man - the faith that moves mountains.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Philosophy

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• It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction and between profession and practice - that is to say with a strong feeling of guilt - are likely to be the most fervent in imposing their faith on others.

  Eric Hoffer

  Strong, Practice, Feelings

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their faults and their - shortcomings, but they were not slothful in business and they were most fervent in spirit.

  Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

  Men, Glowing, Sloth

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• Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child’s spirit; for such mutilation undercuts the life principle of trust, without which every human act, may it feel ever so good and seem ever so right is prone to perversion by destructive forms of conscientiousness.

  Erik Erikson

  Children, May, Principles

  Erik H. Erikson (1993). “Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History”, p.70, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Hope is the enduring belief in the attainability of fervent wishes, in spite of the dark urges and rages which mark the beginning of existence. Hope is the ontogenetic basis of faith, and is nourished by the adult faith which pervades patterns of care.

  Erik Erikson

  Dark, Wish, Care

  Erik H. Erikson (1994). “Insight and Responsibility”, p.118, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. We read the quotation with his eyes, andfind a new and fervent sense; as a passage from one of the poets, well recited, borrows new interest from the rendering. As the journals say, "the italics are ours.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Genius, Poet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.194, Рипол Классик

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• Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness.

  George Will

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Light, Littles

  George F. Will (1978). “The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I shall look for whatever success may attend my public service; and knowing that "except the Lord keep the city the watchman waketh but in vain," with fervent supplications for His favor, to His overruling providence I commit with humble but fearless confidence my own fate and the future destinies of my country.

  John Quincy Adams

  Country, Humble, Fate

  John Quincy Adams, William Harwood Peden (1946). “The Selected Writings of John and John Quincy Adams”

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• what storyteller is adequate to her story? The story carries us along, bottles on the tide, each with our secret mesage and the fervent hope that it does not turn out to be blank.

  Erica Jong

  Secret, Doe, Bottles

  Erica Jong (2013). “Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• Like a community sing, a howl is a happy occasion. Wolves love to howl. When it is started, they instantly seek contact with one another, troop together, fur to fur. Some wolves will run from any distance, panting and bright-eyed, to join in, uttering, as they near, fervent little wows, jaws wide, hardly able to wait to sing.

  Lois Crisler

  Running, Distance, Waiting

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• People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Travel, Home

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.11, Macmillan

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• Americans respect talent only insofar as it leads to fame, and we reserve our most fervent admiration for famous people who destroy their lives as well as their talent. The fatal flaws of Elvis, Judy, and Marilyn register much higher on our national applause meter than their living achievements. In Amerca, talent is merely a tool for becoming famous in life so you can become more famous in death - where all are equal.

  Florence King

  People, Achievement, Becoming

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• The Greatest evils inflicted by man over the face of the Earth are wrought not by the self-seekers, the pleasure lovers, or the merely amoral, but by the fervent devotees of ethical principles.

  Robert Morrison MacIver

  Men, Ethical Principles, Self

  Robert Morrison MacIver (2005). “Politics and Society”, p.174, Transaction Publishers

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• Fervent religious believers sacrifice pleasures of the body, but instead enjoy pleasures of the mind, including the joy of knowing that those men who didn't follow their religion would be tortured for eternity.

  Bertrand Russell

  Religious, Sacrifice, Men

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• Do you realize you can actually listen a person's soul into existence? Your fervent interest in the inner life of those you care for can awaken their dormant powers. The teacher Richard Moss says 'The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.' Offer this gift.

  Rob Brezsny

  Life, Teacher, Giving

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.178, Frog Books

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• What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Vanity, Virtue, Ifs

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• Fervent prayer keeps your true identity in focus.

  Priscilla Shirer

  Prayer, True Identity, Focus

  Priscilla Shirer (2015). “Fervent: A Woman's Battle Plan to Serious, Specific and Strategic Prayer”, p.57, B&H Publishing Group

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• Your fervent wishes can only find fulfillment if you succeed in attaining love and understanding of men, and animals, and plants, and stars, so that every joy becomes your joy and every pain your pain.

  Albert Einstein

  Stars, Pain, Men

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.30, Princeton University Press

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