"The path to Heaven is narrow, rough and full of wearisome and trying ascents, nor can it be trodden without great toil; and therefore wrong is their way, gross their error, and assured their ruin who, after the testimony of so many thousands of saints, will not learn where to settle their footing."

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Source : Saint Robert Southwell (1822). “Mary Magdalen's Funeral Tears: The Triumphs Over Death; and An Epistle of Comfort”, p.144

Robert Southwell

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“Mathematicians need proofs to keep them honest. All technical areas of human activity need reality checks. It is not enough to believe that something works, that it is a good way to proceed, or even that it is true. We need to know why it's true. Otherwise, we won't know anything at all.”

Source : Ian Stewart (2007). “Letters to a Young Mathematician”, p.79, Basic Books
“Windbags can be right. Aphorists can be wrong. It is a tough world.”

Source : The Times, February 21, 1985.
“I really loved Witches of Eastwick, the movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jack Nicholson and Cher.”
“Meaning is not in things but in between them.”

Source : Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition”, p.247, Univ of California Press
“When she packed up to leave, she knew that she was saying goodbye to something important, which was not that bad, in a way, because it meant that at least you had said hello to it to begin with...”
“Education is extremely important, especially in my business, the music business.”

Source : "Puerto Rico Gov. Says Latino VP Would Help GOP Win Latino Vote" By Susanne Ramirez de Arellano, www.foxnews.com. February 21, 2012.
“My music is very, very precise. It's very rigorous. The forms are much more intricate than you would imagine.”
“I would say my grandmother would be like my personal god.”

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