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Read more: Sanctimonious?“True, madam, those who have most virtue in their mouths, have least of it in their bosom,” Marlow says to Kate in Oliver Goldsmith’s “She…
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Read more: An observer of life?“I have lived, indeed, in the world, madam; but I have kept little company,” Marlow says to Kate in Oliver Goldsmith’s “She Stoops to Conquer.”…
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Read more: Caution can be patheticGoethe says that boldness is powerful. And, Mary Oliver, in her poem “Moments,” proclaims that caution can be pathetic. Here’s part of the poem. There…
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Read more: Faith and reasonAwe is “the feeling of being in the presence of something vast that you don’t immediately understand,” says Dacher Keltner. Dr. Keltner, who says that…
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Read more: If you want to be happyHis Holiness, the Dali Lama says: “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” Dacher Keltner,…
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Read more: The beginning of a dream“A dream begins with a dreamer,” Harriet Tubman once said. Tubman, who soon will be featured on $20 bills, was born a slave. After she…
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Read more: Not worth a sixpenceHarriet Tubman, who soon will be featured on $20 bills, was born a slave. After she escaped to freedom, she returned to the South again…
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Read more: Lessons from Ginger, my canine friendGinger, my faithful companion, who is sleeping now on the dog bed next to my desk, turned 11 last month. Despite her old age, she…
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Read more: The brethren laughed heartilyIn 1853, Sarah Grimke, abolitionist and feminist, was invited to sit in the chair of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. “As I took…
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Read more: Would you hire Ruth Bader Ginsburg?In 1959, RBG graduated from Columbia Law at the top of her class, but she could barely get a job. No one wanted to hire…