“ Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence. ”
- Confucius- Copy
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“ Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery…brutal or lovely, the mystery waits for people wherever they go, whatever extreme they run to. ”
- Eudora Welty- Copy
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“ Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty. ”
- Edmund Pendleton- Copy
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“ You're a Catholic in Italy when you're born, it's unthinkable to stop being Catholic. You just take the rules a lot more seriously, because it pervades your culture. ”
- Andrew Greeley- Copy
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“ Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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“ God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body. ”
- Raymond Holliwell- Copy
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“ Can you have more than one major MISSION pervading your life? NO. That would be like coming to a fork in the road and trying to go both ways by straddling it. ”
- Charles A. Garfield- Copy
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“ A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind. ”
- Edmund Spenser- Copy
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“ The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages. ”
- Andrew Greeley- Copy
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“ It is the absence of immediate and compelling goals that leads to boredom, low energy, pessimism, depression and despair, among a heap of other unpleasant conditions. The worst affliction in life is neither pain, nor poverty, nor misfortune, nor the perfidy of others, because all of these have been met and defeated by those with a determination to do so… ”
- Joe Klock- Copy
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“ On the 31st of October, at ten o'clock in the morning, the troop disembarked on the quays of Tampa Town; and one may imagine the activity which pervaded that little town, whose population was thus doubled in a single day. ”
- Jules Verne- Copy
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“ Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery. ”
- Pope John Paul II- Copy
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“ How badly I want that nameless thing! First there must be an idea, a feeling… Maybe it was an abstract idea that you've got to find a symbol for, or maybe it was a concrete form that you have to simplify or distort to meet your ends, but that starting point must pervade the whole. ”
- Emily Carr- Copy
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“ When a person acts only on their own Judgment they are always fearful of being wrong… . Not that I admire indecision on the contrary I dislike it much. I know however it is one of my own faults & it pervades more or less everything I do. ”
- Robert Baldwin- Copy
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“ There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of men who believed in original sin, and were resolved to leave open for transgressors no door which they could possibly shut. ”
- James Bryce- Copy
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“ Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have is this. When I have a subject in mind. I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it… the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius… ”
- Alexander Hamilton- Copy
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“ God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country.". ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ I am willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never sense the sweet stench of corruption that is all around them — the keen, thin scent of decay that pervades everything and accuses with a terrible accusation the superficial youthfulness, the abounding undergraduate noise, that fills those ancient buildings. ”
- Thomas Merton- Copy
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“ Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably. ”
- Truman Capote- Copy
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“ But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept… ”
- James Thurber- Copy
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“ Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances… in short, by the influence of woman, in the lofty character of wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ A miracle is nothing more or less than this. Anyone who has come into a knowledge of his true identity, of his oneness with the all-pervading wisdom and power, this makes it possible for laws higher than the ordinary mind knows of to be revealed to him. ”
- Ralph Waldo Trine- Copy
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“ A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent. ”
- Maya Angelou- Copy
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