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- And that is enough to raise your thoughts to what may happen when the redeemed soul, beyond all hope and nearly beyond belief, learns at…
- God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous
- True friends don’t spend time gazing into each other’s eyes. They may show great tenderness towards each other but they face in the same direction…
- The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where the truthful answer to the question "Do you see…
- As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he…
- One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting every one else…
- The search for a "suitable" church makes the man a critic where God wants him to be a pupil. What he wants from the layman…
- It is very true. But even a traitor may mend. I have known one who did.
- A thing may be morally neutral and yet the desire for that thing may be dangerous.
- The time when there is nothing at all in your soul except a cry for help may be just that time when God can't give…
- Here the whole world (stars, water, air, And field, and forest, as they were Reflected in a single mind) Like cast off clothes was left…
- The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning…
- It may well be that by trickery of priests men have sometimes taken a mortal's voice for a god's. But it will not work the…
- And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we…
- Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
- You must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or…
- Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance.…
- Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like.
- But if you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels--saddled, by no choice of…
- Every good book should be entertaining. A good book will be more; it must not be less. Entertainment…is like a qualifying examination. If a fiction…
- The best swordsman in the world may be disarmed by a trick that's new to him.
- In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain…
- Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy. Nature will not…
- We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts…
- This is where men, even the trustiest, fail us. Their heart is never so wholly given to any matter but that some trifle of a…
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong