"Considerate la vostra semenza:
fatti non foste a viver come bruti,
ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza." Dante's Inferno, Chapter 26, In Italian
English Translation: Consider ye the seed from which ye sprang;
Ye were not made to live like unto brutes,
But for pursuit of virtue and of knowledge.
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
Paradise Lost, John Milton, Chapter 1
I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love.
Walt Whitman
God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.
Robert Browning
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of Imagination.
John Keats
The poem is a confession of faith.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends."
Sir Francis Bacon
There is a god within us, and we have intercourse with heaven. That spirit comes from abodes on high."
Ovid
Truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the Lies you can invent.
William Blake
The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed- It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.
William Shakespeare
Everyman's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
Hans Christian Anderson
He who does not have the church as his mother does not have God as his Father.
Saint Augustine
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Saint Augustine
O, Divine Master, Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console; To be understood as to understand; To be loved as to love; For it is in giving that we receive; It is in pardoning that we are pardoned; And it is in dying to ourselves that we are born to eternal life. Amen.
Saint Augustine
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
How blessed and amazing are God's gifts, dear friends! Life with immortality,
splendor with righteousness, truth with confidence, faith with assurance,
self-control with holiness! And all these things are within our comprehension.
Saint Clement
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