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"Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good."
"Love is the crowning grace of humanity."
"Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace."
"And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not."
"Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer a mutable and superficial pleasure; books give delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy."
"Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us."
"Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe."
"It is better to will the good than to know the truth."
"Man has not a greater enemy than himself."
"Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together."
"Virtue is health, vice is sickness."
"All pleasure in the world is a passing dream."
"Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive"
"For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars."
"Suspicion is the cancer of friendship."
"If a hundred or a thousand people, all of the same age, of the same constitution and habits, were suddenly seized by the same illness, and one half of them were to place themselves under the care of doctors, such as they are in our time, whilst the other half entrusted themselves to Nature and to their own discretion, I have not the slightest doubt that there would be more cases of death amongst the former, and more cases of recovery among the latter."
"I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own."
"Books have led some to learning and others to madness."
"To be able to say how much love, is love but little."
"Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone."