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All things therefore are charged with love, are charged with God and if we knew how to touch them give off sparks and take fire, yield drops and flow, ring and tell of him.

Peter Milward, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Raymond V. Schoder (1975). “Landscape and inscape: vision and inspiration in Hopkins's poetry”, Elektrohas

Successfully to accomplish any task it is necessary not only that you should give it the best there is in you, but that you should obtain for it the best there is in those under your guidance.

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 759-62, In the Nat. Assoc. of Corporation Schools Bulletin (Feb., 1918), 1922.

To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny

George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “Writings: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.414

What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .

George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.84, MIT Press

We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.

George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.84, 谷月社

I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed! Gen.

Speech to the Third Army on June 05, 1944. "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 32, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.

Too stupid to learn and too stupid to give up.

George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.2710, Bantam

Give me a good sharp knife and a good sharp cheese and I’m a happy man.

George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.805, Bantam

Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.

George R. R. Martin (2016). “A Game of Thrones: The Illustrated Edition: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One”, p.90, Bantam

Women do not forget. Women do not forgive.

George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.52, Bantam