Quotes by Eliza Farnham

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• Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

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• Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.

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• The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.

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• The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

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Subjects in these quotes:

• theological
• development
• experience
• legitimate
• acquainted
• register

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