The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction. - Alexis de Tocqueville

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God is God. He knows what he is doing. When you can’t trace his hand, trust his heart.

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The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing. - Alexis de Tocqueville

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I remember how much - when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of 'Peter Pan.' I detested it. I mean, the sentimental idea that anybody would want to remain a boy. - Maurice Sendak

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If God can use a man without arms and legs to be His hands and feet, then He will certainly use any willing heart!

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Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.

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When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness. - Alexis de Tocqueville

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May the strength of God pilot us, may the wisdom of God instruct us, may the hand of God protect us, may the word of God direct us. Be always ours this day and for evermore.

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there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock. ― Charles Bukowski

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In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. - Alexis de Tocqueville

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