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«Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.»
«I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.»
Author: Jules Verne (Author) | About: Animals, Cats | Keywords: cloud, spirits, walk-on
«For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very center of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are some of the minor pleasures of those independent, intense and impartial spirits, who do not lend themselves easily to linguistic definitions. The observer is a prince enjoying his incognito wherever he goes.»
«I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.»
«I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any»
«It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope»
«Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.»
«Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.»
«Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.»
«Friendship is a union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond there of virtue»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Friendship | Keywords: bond, spirits, union

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