. . . ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful … - Russell Kirk

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When a song comes from a real story and from a real place I think it comes across to people. That's important.

Russell Kirk

. . . ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and poverty of their lot.

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Schooling deprived of religious insights is wretched education.

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The modern spectacle of vanished forests and eroded lands, wasted petroleum and ruthless mining, national debts recklessly increased until they are repudiated, and continual revision of positive law, is evidence of what an age without veneration does to itself and its successors.

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Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle.

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The ACLU has been able to harass out of existence public expressions of faith.

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A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.

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Sarah took a deep breath and set off along the passageway again. A clump of lichen on the gatepost opened its eyes and watched her go. The eyes, on tendrils, had an anxious look, and when she had gone some distance away the clump, swiveling its eyes toward each other, commenced to gossip among itself. Most of it disapproved of the direction she had taken. You could tell that from the way the eyes looked meaningfully into each other. Lichen knows about directions.

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When I had satisfied myself that no star of that kind had ever shone before, I was led into such perplexity by the unbelievability of the thing that I began to doubt the faith of my own eyes.

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