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"Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire."

"Today I make time to release any burdens that I carry. One by one I release them into the atmosphere, until my body is in a complete state of calm."

"What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?"

"Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets."
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"How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture."


"In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all."


"What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality."


"It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom."


"Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore."


"Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art."
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