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The true university of these days is a collection of books. ”
From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring. ”
Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns. ”
Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter. ”
A girl does not treat a possible lover with unvarying simplicity and directness. In all its phases, love is complex; friendship is not. ”
True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation. ”
And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best? ”
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice. ”
All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit. ”
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. ”