The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

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"A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories."

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Love

"A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea."

- Honore de Balzac

Love

"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart."

- Honore de Balzac

Love

"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself."

- Honore de Balzac

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"One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul."

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"It is at the moment of death that humanity has value."

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"Religion, ideology, resources, land, spite, love or just because… No matter how pathetic the reason, it’s enough to start a war. War will never cease to exist… reasons can be thought up after the fact… Human nature pursues strife."

- Paine

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"Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves."

- Eric Sevareid

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"Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!"

- Theodor Seuss Geisel

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"Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home."

- G.K. Chesterton

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