"Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them."

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Source : Isaac Barrow (1830). “The works of Dr. Isaac Barrow”, p.412

Isaac Barrow

#Design Quotes #May Quotes #Sin Quotes

“Some people have food, but no appetite; others have an appetite, but no food. I have both. The Lord be praised.”
“Many photographers live in a dream world of beautiful backgrounds. It wouldnâ€™t hurt them to get a taste of reality to wake them up.”
“When it becomes a part of every man's thinking that a single thought can change the polarity of our entire body toward either life or death - and can likewise change its entire chemistry toward increasing alkalinity or acidity to strengthen it or weaken it - or can change the shape of every corpuscle of matter in the entire body in the direction of either growth or decay - then the medical profession will radically change both its principles and its practices with the ailment of bodies.”
“I can't help it, Kate. And I'm laughing at me. I feel like one of those sappy men who run around with a big grin on his face all the time. I feel like grinning all the time around you, and it's so idiotic.”

Source : Christine Feehan (2006). “The Wicked and the Wondrous”, p.247, Simon and Schuster
“You canâ€™t always control circumstances. However, you can always control your attitude, approach, and response.”
“You're a song written by the hands of God.”
“Why should not a writer be permitted to make use of the levers of fear, terror and horror because some feeble soul here and there finds it more than it can bear? Shall there be no strong meat at table because there happen to be some guests there whose stomachs are weak, or who have spoiled their own digestions?”

Source : E. T. A. Hoffmann (2015). “The Mutual Interdependence of Things (Fantasy and Horror Classics)”, p.54, Read Books Ltd
“How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light.”

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