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But in his dream he knew their way was prepared, and in their time they would rise up joyful.
- Wendell Berry
And yet for a long time, looking back, I have been unable to shake off the feeling that I have been led—make of that what you will.
- Wendell Berry
All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born.
- William Faulkner
I am the chosen of the Lord, for who He loveth, so doeth He chastiseth. But I be durn if He dont take some curious ways to show it, seems like.
- William Faulkner
The destiny of the land, the nation, the South, the State, the County, was already whirling into the plunge of its precipice, not that the State and the South knew it, because the first seconds of fall always seem like soar.
- William Faulkner
There are good men everywhere, at all times. Most men are. Some are just unlucky, because most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be. And I've known some that even the circumstances couldn't stop. ~from 'Delta Autumn
- William Faulkner
Show me the man what aint going to die, bless Jesus.
- William Faulkner
He aimed for them to stay put like a tree or a stand of corn. Because if He'd a aimed for man to be always a-moving and going somewhere else, wouldn't He put him longways on his belly, like a snake? It stands to reason He would.
- William Faulkner
Which explains a lot, having likewise noticed in my time that the goddess in charge of virtue seems to be the same one in charge of luck, if not of folly also.
- William Faulkner
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- William Faulkner
It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off being religious at all. By being religious we establish ourselves in possession of ultimate reality at the only points at which reality is given us to guard. Our responsible concern is with our private destiny, after all.
- William James
Resign your destiny to higher powers.
- William James