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On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of… — John James Audubon
Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again. — Saint Augustine
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others. — Saint Augustine
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it. — Saint Augustine
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was… — Saint Augustine
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come… — Marcus Aurelius
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge. — Marcus Aurelius
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. — Marcus Aurelius
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. — Marcus Aurelius
Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle. — Marcus Aurelius
Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made… — Marcus Aurelius
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind,… — Marcus Aurelius
India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight,… — Sri Aurobindo
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — Jane Austen
It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse… — Jane Austen
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her… — Jane Austen
Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father… — Paul Auster
The more we exile ourselves from nature, the more we crave its miracle waters. — Diane Ackerman
All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted. — Teresa of Avila
Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen? — Teresa of Avila

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