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Helen Hunt Jackson (6)
When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.
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Mahalia Jackson (13)
How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands?
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Max Jacob (2)
Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.
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Harriet Ann Jacobs (3)
There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.
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Arne Jacobsen (4)
Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
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William James (40)
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
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Alice James (2)
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
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Henry James (10)
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Storm Jameson (2)
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
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Randall Jarrell (2)
The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
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Alfred Jarry (3)
It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.
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Robinson Jeffers (2)
Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.
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Thomas Jefferson (70)
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
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Gertrude Jekyll (3)
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust.
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Jerome K. Jerome (7)
We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.
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Douglas William Jerrold (5)
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
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John Jewel (2)
As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.
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Pope John XXIII (9)
Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
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Samuel Johnson (63)
Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
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Lyndon B. Johnson (24)
I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.
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William Samuel Johnson (4)
Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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Andrew Johnson (2)
Honest conviction is my courage the Constitution is my guide.
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John Paul Jones (3)
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.
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E. Stanley Jones (5)
Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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Janis Joplin (5)
On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people and then I go home alone.
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Barbara Jordan (6)
Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
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David Starr Jordan (2)
When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!
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Joseph Joubert (14)
Genius begins great works labor alone finishes them.
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James Joyce (11)
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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Carl Jung (19)
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
233 wisdom & wit about being alone