"God has given to all things their course and decided how high and how far they may go, not higher, not lower."

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“If you have been given a talent, exercise it freely and happily like the sun: give everyone from your splendour.”

“What else is the help of medicine than love?”

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“Belief and work, knowledge and action are one and the same thing.”

“What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.”

“As you talk, so is your heart.”

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"The chief glory of Princes, and the chief of their Titles...is, That they are God's Deputies and Vicegerents here on earth; that they represent him, and by consequence, that they ought to resemble hi…"

— Gilbert Burnet

Religion1643–1715

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"Many so called primitives are afraid of cameras. They think it can capture their soul and take it away. There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to inco…"

— William S. Burroughs

Literature1914–1997

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"Time cools, time clarifies, no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. In the early dawn, standing weapon in hand, neither of the combatants would be the same man as on the…"

— Thomas Mann

Literature

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