Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits


Marguerite Blessington

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
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Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
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Tears fell from my eyes--yes, weak and foolish as it now appears to me, I wept for my departed youth...
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We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.
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Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out.
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The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
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Mountains appear more lofty, the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this...
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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.
BLAISE PASCAL
They will love me for that which destroys me.
SARAH KANE
Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.
JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN
Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight, and converts ...
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Hate destroys every container in which it is allowed to live
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The happy bells shall ring Marguerite; The summer birds shall sing Marguerite; You smile but y...
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I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.
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The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability...
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Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion give...
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Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives ...
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Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives ...
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Love is a weakness which converts even the strongest minds as its slave and makes them sing its tune...
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Ego is like a mad elephant which is ridden by our blind heart and blind mind and which ultimately de...
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The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which ...
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When despair looms over,inculcate good thoughts which will be able to take out from despair moment t...
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There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly g...
TWYLA THARP
The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.
WILLIAM ROBERTSON SMITH
Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.
PROVERB
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.
GERMAN PROVERB
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.
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Throughout the whole absurd life I'd lived, a dark wind had been rising toward me from somewhere dee...
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It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destr...
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The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables phi...
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My religion is humanitarianism, which is the basis of every religion in the world
ABDUL SATTAR EDHI
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion giv...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.
LADY MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
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Superstition is ... religion which is incongruous with intelligence.
JOHN TYNDALL
The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts,...
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to...
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New converts should be discipled to bring kingdom into their world
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In this Epistle, the Apostle seeks, with great earnestness, to confirm the Christian converts in the...
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He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke
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He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke.
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It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys...
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That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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Yu's physical and psychological state demonstrates the full atrocity of the Chinese prison system, w...
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True religion is that which does not let you stumble.
DADA BHAGWAN
By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
OSCAR WILDE
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable
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Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the l...
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Time converts into a mirage if we get enamored by its aspects and phases.
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ALBERT SCHWEITZER
Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted
ANDRE MALRAUX
I questioned the blind faith demanded by my religion, which was Islam.
ART MALIK
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
JAMES FEIBLEMAN
Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
HOSEA BALLOU
India is a country in which every great religion finds a home.
ANNIE BESANT
That which takes one away from religion (dharma) is bad company (kusang).
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The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn ...
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The monopoly capitalists - even while employing purely empirical methods - weave around art a compli...
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A mathematician is a magician who converts adjectives into nouns: continuous into continuum, infinit...
BILL GAEDE
Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.
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A religion which requires persecution to sustain it is of the devil's propagation.
HOSEA BALLOU
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
LUCRETIUS
That cannot be a true religion which needs carnal weapons to uphold it.
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. . . then black despair The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I ...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to...
HECTOR BERLIOZ
We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.
CESAR CHAVEZ
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to...
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Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it d...
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SOURCE UNKNOWN
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity.
EDMUND BURKE
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference, which is, at least, half infidelity
EDMUND BURKE
Any religion which claims to be the only right one is the wrong one.
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Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
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Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which ...
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The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment.
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This I believe: That the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in ...
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Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroy...
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We laugh at the efforts of the musk deer to find the source of the scent which comes from itself and...
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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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It's just a chance for people to get together and mingle and have a good time. And to tell the story...
MARGUERITE THOMAS
No officer of the court or citizen of this commonwealth wants to accept that wrongs of this magnitud...
MARGUERITE THOMAS
Probably. But, I'm saying Sarah and her mother had problems to a much greater degree.
MARGUERITE SOWERSBY
She was obsessed with getting her nails done while we were selecting photos for memory boards at ser...
MARGUERITE SOWERSBY
One night (I was eleven years old at the time) he came and shook me from my sleep and announced, wit...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR
Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making f...
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS
Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS
The more hidden the venom, the more dangerous it is.
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS
No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS
It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS
A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself.
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS
~ Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally ...
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS
The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes t...
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS
A woman of honor should not expect of others things she would not do herself.
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS
Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS
People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach.
MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE
Each of us has his place in the world " he said. "If we cannot serve in one way there is always anot...
MARGUERITE DE ANGELI
It is better to have crooked legs than a crooked spirit.
MARGUERITE DE ANGELI
A fine and beautiful life lies before thee, because thou hast a lively mind and a good wit. Thine ar...
MARGUERITE DE ANGELI
Gilds the crenelated towers of the churches here and there, Intensifies the hue of flowers makes thy...
MARGUERITE DE ANGELI
We can only do the best we can with what we have. That, after all, is the measure of success: what w...
MARGUERITE DE ANGELI
I never cut my neighbor's throat;
My neighbor's gold I never stole;
I never spoiled his ho...
MARGUERITE OGDEN BIGELOW WILKINSON
It is difficult to overcome one's passions, and impossible to satisfy them
MARGUERITE DE LA SABLIERE