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The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can…
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As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their…
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The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom…
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First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.
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Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to…
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Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be…
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As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me, and are…
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I longed that those who, I have reason to think, owe me ill will, might be eternally happy. It seemed refreshing to…
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Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the…
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Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never…
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Prayer is the easiest and hardest of all things; the simplest and the sublimest; the weakest and the most powerful; its results…
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Aristotle's opinion... that comets were nothing else than sublunary vapors or airy meteors... prevailed so far amongst the Greeks, that this sublimest…
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Which of the two powers, Love or Music, can elevate man to the sublimest heights? ... It is a problem, and yet…
— Hector Berlioz
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A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul,…
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In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque…
— George Eliot
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