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- As cold as everything looks in winter, the sun has not forsaken us. He has only drawn away for a little, for good reasons, one…
- To try too hard to make people good is one way to make them worse. The only way to make them good is to be…
- [God desires] not that He may say to them, "Look how mighty I am, and go down upon your knees and worship," for power alone…
- It is only by loving a thing that you can make it yours.
- The ruin of a man's teaching comes of his followers, such as having never touched the foundation he has laid, build upon it wood, hay,…
- Never was there a more injurous mistake than to say it was thebusiness only of the clergy to care for souls.
- No; but you came, and found the riddles waiting for you! Indeed you are yourself the only riddle. What you call riddles are truths, and…
- He (God) can be revealed only to the child; perfectly, to the pure child only. All the discipline of the world is to make men…
- I only know when I don't know a thing... . wisdom lies in that.
- The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self.
- But it is not the rich person only who is under the domination of things; they too are slaves who, having no money, are unhappy…
- Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it…
- Her heart - like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away - was an inexhaustible fountain of love: she loved everything she…
- We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough.
- Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.
- I learned that it is better, a thousand-fold, for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his…
- I don't know how to thank you.' Then I will tell you. There is only one way I care for. Do better, and grow better,…
- Yet I know that good is coming to me—that good is always coming; though few have at all times the simplicity and the courage to…
- Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.
- For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place…
- But we believe – nay, Lord we only hope, That one day we shall thank thee perfectly For pain and hope and all that led…
- Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin. The only vengeance worth having on sin is to make the…
- You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave.
- If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he…
- Right gladly would He free them from their misery, but He knows only one way: He will teach them to be like himself, meek and…
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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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- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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