Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
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Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.Henri Frederic Amiel
To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be - in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.
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To curse grief is easier than to bless it, but to do so is to fall back into the point of view of the earthly, the carnal, the natural man. By what has Christianity subdued the world if not by the apotheosis of grief, by its marvelous transmutation of suf.
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There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
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Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
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What we call little things are merely the causes of great things they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of a gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.
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