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"I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute."
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"As light nourishes plants, wisdom nourishes sages."
"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."
"If you were brought up on a poor man's brand of drink and prefer that to this very day then do not pretend you like expensive wine."
"The beginning of wisdom is understanding that life is full of ongoing learning experiences."
"The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty."
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"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."
"Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good."
"Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion."
"If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!"
"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble."
"Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones."
"Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature."
"I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute."
"Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair."
"There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him."
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