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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. ”
I have this lock of hair that keeps falling across my forehead. It drives me mad. ”
My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other. ”
Go straight for souls, and go for the worst. ”
Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age. ”
If a thing loves, it is infinite. ”
Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. ”
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too. ”
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. ”
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind. ”