“ Yet do I believe that all this is true, which indeed my reason would persuade me to be false; and this I think is no vulgar part of faith to believe a thing not only above, but contrary to reason, and against the argument of our proper senses. ”
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“ There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures. ”
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“ It is a brave act to despise death; but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live. ”
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“ There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces. ”
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“ Have too rashly charged the troops of error and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth. ”
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“ It is a brave act of valor to condemn death, but where life is more terrible than death it is then the truest valor to dare to live. ”
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“ It is a brave act to despise death; but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live. ”
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“ Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by making them mine own, I may more easily discuss them; for in mine own reason, and within myself, I can command that which I cannot entreat without myself, and within the circle of another. ”
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“ True charity is sagacious, and will find out hints for beneficence. ”
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“ Have too rashly charged the troops of error and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth. ”
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“ Festination may prove Precipitation; Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation. ”
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“ Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688 Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude,... but delight to be alone and single with Omnipresency… ”
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“ Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688 Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude,... but delight to be alone and single with Omnipresency… ”
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“ Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own. ”
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“ Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688 Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude,... but delight to be alone and single with Omnipresency… ”
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“ When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose. - Sir Thomas Browne. ”
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