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Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
— Hosea Ballou
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Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
— Honore de Balzac
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Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
— Honore de Balzac
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to…
— Honore de Balzac
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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
— Honore de Balzac
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Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.
— Honore de Balzac
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Love is a game in which one always cheats.
— Honore de Balzac
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
— Honore de Balzac
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Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which…
— Honore de Balzac
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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
— Honore de Balzac
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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
— Honore de Balzac
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Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.
— Honore de Balzac
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Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
— Honore de Balzac
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Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
— Honore de Balzac
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To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
— Douglas Adams
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There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly…
— Douglas Adams
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