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As ravens rejoice over carrion, so infernal spirits exult over the soul that is dead in sin.

— Christian Scriver Gotthold's Emblems (1667)

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My God, help me always resolutely to strive, and through life and death, to force my way unto Thee.

Gotthold's Emblems (1667)

It is self-love, and its offspring, self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as in a delicious dream, to hell.

Gotthold's Emblems (1667)

Never have I greater reason for suspicion than when I am particularly pleased with myself, my faith, my prayers, and my alms.

Gotthold's Emblems (1667)

Be less concerned about the number of the books you read, and more about the good use you make of them. The best of books is the Bible.

Gotthold's Emblems (1667)

God has given you your child, that the sight of him, from time to time, might remind you of His goodness, and induce you to praise Him with filial reverence.

Gotthold's Emblems (1667)

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Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue:
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.

Mircea Eliade Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1967)

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

Confucius

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