"In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages."

Mathews, William on solitude
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"Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination."

Harrison, Barbara Grizzuti on fantasy
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"All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination."

Jung, Carl on imagination
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"In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself."

Sterne, Laurence on solitude
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"This great misfortune -- to be incapable of solitude."

Bruyere, Jean De La on solitude
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"If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would be spent before the Words of my lord are spent."

Qur'an on god
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"Memory is the scribe of the soul."

Aristotle on memory
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"Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul."

Pope, Alexander on merit
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"Faith is a continuation of reason."

Adams, William on faith
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"May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?"

Auden, W. H. on faith
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"Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe."

Augustine, St. on faith
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"Faith is a higher faculty than reason."

Bailey, Henry Christopher on faith
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"Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven."

Beaumont, Francis on faith
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"I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind."

Bernard, St. on faith
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"He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep - pain that cannot forget; Falls drop by drop upon the heart, And in our own despite, against our will, Comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God."

Aeschylus on god
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"God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them."

Aughey, John H. on god
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"All people are a single nation."

Qur'an on humankind
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"And as for the unbelievers, their works are as a mirage in a spacious plain which the man athirst supposes to be water, till when he comes to it, he finds it is nothing; there indeed he finds God, and He pays him his account in full; (and God is swift at the reckoning)."

Qur'an on atheism   

"Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?"

Qur'an on adversity
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"As for evildoers, for them awaits a painful chastisement; but for those who believe, and do deeds of righteousness, they shall be admitted to gardens underneath which rivers flow, therein dwelling forever, by the leave of their Lord, their greeting therein: Peace!"

Qur'an on heaven   

"Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand."

Acquinas, Saint Thomas on faith
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"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."

Milton, John on mind
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"It is nobler to convert souls, than to conquer kingdoms."

Debonnaire, Louis on persuasion   

"The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on."

Holland, Josiah Gilbert on soul
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"Great souls endure in silence."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on soul
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"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle."

Gibran, Kahlil on knowledge
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"In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge."

Johnson, Samuel on travel   

"Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on knowledge
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"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life."

Byron, Lord on sorrow
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"Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life."

Keller, Helen on knowledge
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"Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science."

Pascal, Blaise on science   

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."

Einstein, Albert on imagination
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"Life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, and all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, and all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love."

Gibran, Kahlil on futility
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"Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul."

Beecher, Henry Ward on heaven   

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"Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure."

Maistre, Joseph De on temptation