"We are only here below as in an inn on a journey. Let us, then have the feelings of travelers. We should think a man very strange who attached himself much to his inn. The wise Christian will not do this."

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Source : Eugénie de Guérin (1866). “Letters”, p.314

Eugenie de Guerin

#Wise Quotes #Christian Quotes #Men Quotes

“Nothing's really a prized possession except my family, you know?”
“A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.”
“Since I got to the big leagues, there's been a whole lot of Direct-TV sold in Jamestown. People like to keep up with the local boy.”
“Tolerance is the last virtue of a depraved society. When an immoral society has blatantly and proudly violated all the commandments, it insists upon one last virtue, tolerance for its immorality. It will not tolerate condemnation of its perversions. It creates a whole new world in which only the intolerant critic of intolerable evil is evil.”
“One cup poured into another makes different waters; tears shed by one eye would blind if wept into another's eye. The breast we strike in joy is not the breast we strike in pain; any man's smile would be consternation on another's mouth.”
“I need a release from whatever I'm writing.”
“My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose.”
“I was raised in a very blue-collar family.”

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