"Just as a mirror, which reflects all things, is set in its own container, so too the rational soul is placed in the fragile container of the body. In this way, the body is governed in its earthly life by the soul, and the soul contemplates heavenly things through faith."

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Hildegard of Bingen

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“In one point the plan was fatally defective, since it involved the deadly enmity of a race whose character and whose power were as yet but ill understood,--the fiercest, boldest, most politic, and most ambitious savages to whom the American forest has ever given birth.”

Source : Francis Parkman, David Levin (1983). “France and England in North America: Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old régime in Canada”, p.286, Library of America
“On the Continent there is one topic which should be avoided-the weather; in England, if you do not repeat the phrase "Lovely day, isn't it?" at least two hundred times a day, you are considered a bit dull.”
“I want to be a soul singer.”
“To feel grateful is one of the most important experiences we need as humans. When we feel it, there is an acceptance of everything in our life.”
“This absence of similarity among military questions naturally brings out the inability of memory to solve them; also the sterility of invariable forms, such as figures, geometrical drawings ( Ã©pures ), plans ( schÃ©mas ), etc. One only right solution imposes itself:;: namely, the application, varying according to circumstances, of fixed principles.”
“Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.”

Source : William Warburton, Richard Hurd (1811). “The Works: To which is Prefixed a Discourse by Way of General Preface, Containing Some Account of the Life, Writings, and Character of the Author”, p.62
“Ugly is very popular this year...I had a feeling these clothes were deigned by someone who didn't like women.”
“Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them.”

Source : "More Than Human". Book by Theodore Sturgeon, Chapter 3, p. 181, 1953.

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