"I am not aware that payment, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul and conscience in questions of highest morality and highest importance."

-- Charles Kingsley

#Men Quotes #Soul Quotes #Favors Quotes

“If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children to read, it would pay for the time spent in writing it.”
“A blur of great magic is still just a blur.”
“You sit better on a colour that you like”
“The religious training inspired in me a desire for learning. In fact, I am immensely grateful for my Catholic education for instilling in me a desire for learning. However, the Catholic training also gave me a desire for questioning. The desire to question led me eventually to distance myself from the Catholic institution and its dogma.”
“For feeling, not events, is to me the essence of history.”
“I don't smoke as many joints as I used to.”
“What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love.”
“Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.”

Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1871). “Literature and Life”, p.38

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