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The saddest thing that can befall a soul
Is when it loses faith in God and woman.

— Alexander Smith

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The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.

Dreamthorp: Essays written in the Country (1863)

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine.

Dreamthorp: Essays written in the Country (1863)

Like a pale martyr in his shirt of fire.

A Life Drama and other Poems (1853)

Some books are drenchèd sands
On which a great soul’s wealth lies all in heaps,
Like a wrecked argosy.

A Life Drama and other Poems (1853)

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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