Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins quotes

The world may take your reputation from you, but it cannot take your character.
-- Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins

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I despise a person of little mind - one might as well not have any.
-- Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins

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Celebrity is a national drama whose characters' parts and plots are written by the tabloids, gossip columnists, websites and interactive buttons. The famous don't actually have to turn up to their own lives at all.

I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.

A bona fide spiritual master, under the guidance of authorities, can turn anyone to the Vaisnava cult so that naturally he may come to the topmost position of a brahmana.

Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.

Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.

Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.

Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.