Quotes 261 till 280 of 453.
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Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.
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Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.
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Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul.
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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
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One must be aware that one is continually being tested in what one wishes most in order to make clear whether one's heart is on earth or in heaven.
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One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The superior man perseveres long in his course, adapts to the times, but remains firm in his direction and correct in his goals.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.
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Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
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Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven.
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Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.
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Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
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Poverty is very good in poems, but it is very bad in a house. It is very good in maxims and sermons, but it is very bad in practical life.
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Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.
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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
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Reason gains all men, by compelling none.
Mercy was always Heaven's distinguished mark:
And he, who bears it not, has no friend there.Alzira (1736) Act I, Sc. 1 -
Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality; we only see real things in the entrancing splendor of imagination and caprice, instead of in the simple daylight of reality and necessity.
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