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There is no darkness but ignorance.
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
‘Tis well, ’tis well; no more: Be not as extreme in submission as in offence.
Who by repentance is not satisfied,
Is nor of heaven nor earth;
for these are pleased.
Truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.
Let us not burden our remembrance with a heaviness that’s gone.
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Shall we serve heaven with less respect than we do minister to our gross selves?
Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good,
But graciously to know I am no better.
The silence often of pure innocence
Persuades when speaking fails.
Your gentleness shall force more than your force move us to gentleness.
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues the better we like him.
Great truths do not take hold of the hearts of the masses.
To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
It is proof of great talents to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.
Every man’s nature is concealed with many folds of disguise, and covered with various veils. His brows, his eyes, and very often his countenance, are deceitful, and his speech is most commonly a lie.
He employs his emotion who can make no use of his reason.
Careful attention to one thing often proves superior to genius.
Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.
We receive but what we give.
