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That discipline which corrects the baseness of worldly passion, fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes it with enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity, than all the provision we can make of the goods of fortune.

— Hugh Blair Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, dispositions hold the place of actions.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

It frequently happens that where the second line is sublime, the third, in which he meant to rise still higher, is perfectly bombast.

Dissimulation in youth is the forerunner of perfidy in old age; its first appearance is the fatal omen of growing depravity and future shame.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Between levity and cheerfulness there is a wide distinction; and the mind which is most open to levity is frequently a stranger to cheerfulness.

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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.

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