The very room, coz she was in,
Seemed warm f'om floor to ceilin'.
James Russell Lowell
Quotes , Source: The Biglow Papers (second series, The Courtin', st. 6)
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You've got to save your own soul first, and then the souls of
your neighbors if they will let you; and for that reason you must
cultivate, not a spirit of criticism, but the talents that
attract people to the hearing of the Word.
George MacDonald
Quotes , Source: The Marquis of Lossie (ch. XXVII)
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Even here Thy strong magnetic charms I feel,
And pant and tremble like the amorous steel.
To lower good, and beauties less divine,
Sometimes my erroneous needle does incline;
But yet (so strong the sympathy)
It turns, and points again to Thee.
John Norris of Bemerton
Quotes , Source: Aspiration
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If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power
carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my
understanding another.
[Lat., Si possem sanior essem.
Sed trahit invitam nova vis; aliudque Cupido,
Mens aliud.]
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Quotes , Source: Metamorphoses (VII, 18)
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If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the
earth would have been changed.
Blaise Pascal
Quotes , Source: Thoughts (ch. VIII, 29)
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By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun.
Plato
Quotes , Source: in Kircher's "Magnes Sive de Arte Magnetica"
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Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow up into.
Elizabeth Bibesco
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