If you practice an excellent virtue without perceiving the taste of its aid, do not marvel; for until a man becomes humble,… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
As it is the nature of a kite to devour little birds, so it is the nature of some minds to insult… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I am a star in the firmament that observe the world, despises the world and consumed in its heat. I am the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I have been taken by Satan into the highest mountain in the earth, and when there he said he to me, ‘Child… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
When a friend is carried to his grave, we at once find excuses for every weakness, and palliation of every fault. We… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The ethic of Reverence for Life prompts us to keep each other alert to what troubles us and to speak and act… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
[Tho]ugh death be a dark passage; it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Good Christian people, here lies for you an inestimable loan; take all heed thereof, in all carefulness, employ it: with high recompense,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Forget not those who ensured you were up and running, when you were down and out.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and… — George Cheyne Copy Share Image
It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels… — George Sand Copy Share Image
Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to mis'ry (all he had)… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Love is alone sufficient by itself, it pleases by itself and for it's own sake. It is itself a merit, and itself… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image