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«Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.»
Author: Edward Gibbon (Historian) | About: Books | Keywords: faithful, heroes, mirrors, reflect, sages
«Sages discovered this link of the existent to the nonexistent, having searched in the heart with wisdom.»
«Few of the many wise apothegms, which have been uttered from the time of the seven sages of Greece to that of poor Richard, have prevented a single foolish action»
«Sages speak of the immutable Tree of Life, with its tape root above and its branches below.»
«Instead of complaining that God had hidden Himself, you will give Him thanks for not having revealed so much of Himself; and you will also give Him thanks for not having revealed Himself to haughty sages, unworthy to know so holy a God.»
«As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children»
«Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates -- but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.»
«Adore Him(GOD), placing a garland of tears around His neck; washing His feet with tears, springing from joy at the contemplation of His Love! That very worship will endow you with the wisdom that Sages seek and the Bliss that the Books extol!???????»
«O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | About: Solitude | Keywords: alarms, charms, reign, sages
«One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.»
Author: William Wordsworth (Poet) | Keywords: sages, vernal

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