“Is there no bright reversion in the sky for those who greatly think, or bravely die?”
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“Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes; the glorious fault of Angels and of Gods.”
“For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.”
“Of manners gentle, of affections mild; in wit, a man; simplicity, a child.”
“And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.”
“Specifically I see Logotherapy in helping others to see meaning in life.”
“Beauty is everywhere, and beauty is only two finger's-breadth from goodness.”
“There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.”
“Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue.”
“An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.”
“Life is the desert, life the solitude; death joins us to the great majority.”
“'Tis fixed, the irrevocable doom of Jove; no force can bend me, no persuasion move.”
“Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase began, a mighty hunter, and his prey was man.”
“So perish all, whose breast ne'er learned to glow for others' good, or melt at others' woe.”
“The management philosophy here really is to give people enough rope to hang themselves.”