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- To a large degree, since the beginning of time, charisma or the lack of it has impacted upon those in quest of acclaim. As media…
- Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies…
- Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 Our critical day is not the very day of our…
- One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
- The Phoenix riddle hath more wit By us, we two being one, are it. So to one neutral thing both sexes fit, We die and…
- From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more, must flow, And soonest our best men with thee…
- The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
- The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life.
- Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant.
- He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.
- More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
- Yet nothing can to nothing fall, Nor any place be empty quite; Therefore I think my breast hath all Those pieces still, though they be…
- That soul that can reflect upon itself, consider itself, is more than so.
- A bride, before a "Good-night" could be said, Should vanish from her clothes into her bed, As souls from bodies steal, and are not spied.…
- Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there; She gives the best light to his sphere; Or each is both, and all, and…
- My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore, but after one such love can love no more.
- All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
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