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Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

The greatest evil is physical pain.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.

He that is jealous is not in love.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

Love, and do what you like.

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.