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Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
Feelings are everywhere -- be gentle.
Feelings are everywhere -- be gentle.
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.
The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
O you much partial gods!
Why gave ye men affections, and not power
To govern them?
O you much partial gods!
Why gave ye men affections, and not power
To govern them?
There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.
There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.
Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.
Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.
What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking read more
What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most of our being is at rest, unlived. In passion, the body and the spirit seek expression outside of self. Passion is all that is other from self. Sex is only interesting when it releases passion. The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead and that soon, come what may, we will be wholly so.
How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity read more
How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.
