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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.
179 quotes about friendship
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.
62 quotes relating to architecture
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.
345 quotes about happiness
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.
218 quotes about beauty
Robinson Jeffers (2)
Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.
178 quotes regarding imagination
Thomas Jefferson (70)
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
233 quotes about being alone
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.
29 thoughts regarding gardening
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.
233 views about being alone
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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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.
240 thoughts about faith
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.
233 quotes about being alone
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.
233 quotes about being alone
James Joyce (11)
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
249 quotes about aging
Carl Jung (19)
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
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