When a strong man armed keepth his palace, his goods are in peace. But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him his entire amour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils. The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness. Those skilled in such matters have carefully figured out that it was Sunday evening, 16 April, in the year A.D. 30, when Christ appeared that second time to His Apostles. Seemingly in but a short time they were back once more at their homes and in their boats, thinking perhaps they were there to stay. The master had spent most of His ministry in Galilee, so it might be He intended that such fishing for me as they might do would be undertaken in their homeland. So far as the Bible record discloses, Christ showed Himself to the disciples but twice, or possibly three times, after they arrived by the shores of Tiberius. However, if these are His only physical appearances, He must still have been present almost continually in their hearts. For this was a highly important four weeks, and in them the Christian church became an actuality. Possibly the last verse of John’s Gospel is, in part, an apology for the happenings during this month of decision being so incompletely recorded.

 Eleven carefully trained men, bereft of their Leader, might have returned to their first occupation, and continued in it as providers of food drawn from the waters of an inland sea. Yet we do know that a new leader for this little band received a short of ordination at a breakfast one morning by the lakeshore. But how, and in what manner, eleven men, several of whom had strong personal ambitions, were welded together, and found the determination to forsake their homes and their living to become fishers of men is not clearly disclosed to us. Still that is precisely what happened. True, there had been intensive training for many months at the hands of the most inspiring of teachers. Yet, on the resurrection morning, the followers were disconcerted, doubtful men. You have to be actively mendacious, and deliberately ignore facts, not just negligent. But by the time, perhaps in early May, when the Great Commission mentioned only by Matthew and Mark was given, the eleven had become sufficiently inspired by the Holy Spirit to become Christ’s ambassadors upon Earth. Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 15:6 that there were fully five hundred on the Galilean mountainside on that day in which the church was informed of its everlasting duties.

 And, as they had once before, the fishermen laid aside their nets, following their Master and Savior back to the rigors and dangers that lurked in Jerusalem. There it was that the church of Christ would first be condemned, and later, in a measure, crucified, only to rise again and go on to great glory among the Gentiles. At the beginning of the grain harvest, Jesus the Christ led a group of His loved ones for the very last time over the Kidron, and to crest of Olivet. And there, not too far from the little Bethany, He was received up into Heaven. I meditate upon the Law of God. It is a Perfect Law and is now working for me and in through me. The Law of the Lord is perfect. I speak into that Law and it is done unto me. Thy Law is in my heart. The Love of All Good is within me and through me. That Love goes out to meet all who come into my atmosphere. I know that beauty has entered into my life, and will always remain there. I see only the beautiful. The Friendship of the Spirit and of man is mine now and forever. Even now I see the countless numbers of friends coming and going around me. I enter into this friendship and this companionship with gladness and rejoicing. I receive my friends. I serve the World. I wait upon the Lord within all men; I call forth glory from On High through the minds of all people. I obey the will of Him Who inhabits Eternit. I do the works of Him who dwelleth among the Heavens. My Lord within commands and I obey. I do good to all people.

 I shall not doubt nor fear, for my salvation is from On High, and the day of its appearing is now at hand. I shall not doubt nor fear, for my whole being responds to the realization of Life within and around me. I shall not fear, for the Hosts of Heaven are waiting upon me, and the Law of the Universe is my Salvation. I was told to live. By some inner mystic Presence, I was told to live and to love, to laugh and to be glad. I was told to let that Power work through and in me. I believed that voice and I received my Good. I am healed, the joy of life. The Love of the All Good is within me and through me. It radiates to all and is flowing through all. My Love within me is Perfect. Love dissolves all fear. Greater than fear is Love. Love dissolves all fear, casts out all doubt and sets the captive free. Love, like the Sacramento River of Life, flows through me and refreshed me with its eternal blessing.  Love cannot be afraid; it is fearless and strong, and is mighty in its works. It can accomplish all things through the Inner Light of that faith in the All Good, which fills my very Being with a Powerful Presence. Love casts out all fear.

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A heartfelt blessing represents a tender wish, when you glance upon the roses in the morning, may ever petal symbolize your glittering hope! I wish all the days that belong to you be filled with pleasure and joy, it is a gift and a blessing from my heart and soul. May the handshake and the hearts in friendship be kept tighter and tighter! However, the wicked will perish: The LORD’s enemies will be like the beauty of the fields, they will vanish, vanish like the smoke from the Jerusalem fire.  Why stay on Earth except to grow? The wicked borrow and do not repay, but the righteous give generously; those the LORD blesses will inherit the land, but those he curses will be cut off. The LORD delights people’s good ways, he makes our steps firm; through we stumble, we will not fall, for the LORD upholds us with his hand. The righteous will inherit the land and dwell in it forever. From the mouth of righteous people comes wisdom, and they speak what is just. The law of our God is in our hearts; our feet do not slip. Thank you God, I know I am saved and sanctified.  

To be successful, you do not need to be lucky or rich. However, you need to know this: You are what you do daily. You first form your habits; then your habits form you. It is just as easy to form habits of success as it is to form habits of failure. Every day you live, you are in the process of becoming. Whether you are becoming better or worse depends on what you give yourself to. Please allow me to give you some advice on how to make yourself successful. Make a commitment to grow daily. One of the greatest mistakes people make is that they have the wrong focus. Success does not come from acquiring, achieving, or advancing. Success only comes as the result of growing. If you make it your goal to grow a little every day, it will not be long before you begin to see beneficial results in your life. Value the process more than events. Specific life events are good for making decisions, but it is the process of change and growth that has lasting value. If I want to go to the next level, I have to strive for continual improvement.  Do not wait for inspiration. I cannot get much done in life if I only work on the days when I feel good. The people who go far in life do so because they motivate themselves and give life their best, regardless of how they feel; to be successful, preserver.

 Be willing to sacrifice pleasure for opportunity. One of the greatest lessons my father taught me was the principle of pay now; play later. For everything in life, you pay a price. Nothing is free. There is another way to look at the cost of your time. Rather than comparing how much you are making per hour, we can compare the opportunity costs. Opportunity cost of some item is what we give up getting that item. For example, we assumed that the journalist and the doctor spend 8 hours a day working. Time spent writing reports, therefore, takes away time from available for consultations. As the journalist and the doctor reallocate time between producing the two good, they move along their production possibility frontiers; they give up two units of one good to produce units of the other. The opportunity cost measures the tradeoff between the two goods that each producer faces. Opportunity cost is a method that also tells us that money is not the only medium of change, it is just one. Think about it, time is also a way to pay for things. For example, if you baby sits your neighbor’s children for so many hours, and they paint your house, that would be a fair exchange of time for time.

 Therefore, opportunity cost of an item is what you give up getting that item. So time is golden, which means it is precious, use it wisely. You choose whether you will pay it on the front end or the back end. If you pay first, then you will enjoy greater rewards in the end, and those rewards taste sweeter. Going back to school or back to work, on Monday, may alarm you. However, keep your attendance up. The day to day busy work will teach you what you need to know to become successful in life so you can accomplish your dreams. Remember, dream big. It does not pay to dream small. We do not have a clue as to what people’s limits are. All the tests, stopwatches, and finish lines in the World cannot measure human potential. So do not let someone discourage you or laugh at your dreams. When someone is pursuing their dream, they will go far beyond what seems to be their limitations. The potential that exists within us is limitless and largely untapped. When you think of limits, you create them. Plan your priorities– one thing that all successful people have in common is that they have mastered the ability to manage their time, they have organized themselves. Henry Kaiser, founder of Kaiser Aluminum and Kaiser Permanente Health Care, reports, “Every minute spent in planning will save you two in execution.”

 You never regain lost time, so make the most of every moment. Nothing of value comes without sacrifice. Life is filled with critical moments when you will have the opportunity to trade one thing you vale for another. Remember, opportunity cost. Keep your eyes open for such moments, and always be sure to trade up, not down. If you dedicated yourself to these steps toward success, then you will keep improving, and you will be successful. Your growth may not be obvious to others all at once, but you will see your progress almost immediately. And though recognition from it may come slowly, do not lose heart. Keep working at it. You will succeed in the end. Success is waiting for you to make the first move.  Wait for the Lord, and keep his ways. He will exalt you. Let us get started.

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He that loves, and is loved by, a race of pure and virtuous creatures, and that lives continually in the midst of them, is a witling if he does not think himself happy.  Love gives even to a dull man the knowledge of his lover’s heart. As a result, he does not live the rest of his Earthly life for human desires, but rather for the will of God. First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, discrediting the LORD and following their own evil desires. They will say, “Where is your God, he promised he was going to save you? Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.” However, they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word the Heavens existed and the Earth was formed out of water and by water. Do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. Nonetheless, the day of the Lord will come like a bolt of lightning. We are looking forward to a new Heaven and a new Earth.

 

 

 

 

 

Prayer draws us near to our own souls, and purifies our thoughts. We are not asked to believe in the Bible, but to believe the One whom the Bible reveals. We are called to present liberty for the conscience of others, not to bring them liberty for their thoughts and opinions. And if we ourselves are free with the liberty of Christ, others will be brought into that same liberty, the liberty that comes from realizing the absolute control and authority of Christ. Though all men have not the same objects of pursuit, all are impelled by the same love of pursuing. The face of the Lord is against those who do evil. Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you.  Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. Luke 10:17 reports, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!” The credulous man, abstractly and unconnected with mankind, is a harmless, inoffensive creature; but when mixed with the community, if he happen to have a lively imagination and an alluring tongue, he becomes a more dangerous animal than a mad ox in a crowd. Rapes are unnatural things, and more rare than imagined. His Heaven insulting purpose, God may wedge aside. From the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God. Once we lose sight of God, we begin to be reckless. We simply begin to act on our own initiative. If we are doing things solely on our own initiative without expecting God to come in, we are on a downward path. We have lost the vision. Is our attitude today an attitude that flows from our vision of God? Are we expecting God to do greater things than He has ever done before? Is there a freshness and a vitality in our spiritual outlook? In the teachings of Christ the element of judgement is always brought out, it is the sign of the love of God. Never sympathize with someone who finds it difficult to get to God; God is not to blame. It is not for us to figure out the reason for the difficulty, but only to present the truth to God so that the Spirit of God will reveal what is wrong.

 When the truth is preached, the Spirit of God brings each person face to face with God himself.  Add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge. Stope hesitating, take the first step. Be determined to act immediately in faith on what God says to you, and never reconsider or change your initial decisions. If you hesitate when God tells you to do something, you are being careless, spurning the grace in which you stand. Take the initiative yourself, make a decision of your will right now, and make it impossible to go back. Burn your bridges behind you, saying, “I will write that letter,” or “I will pay that debt’; and then do it! God gives us more than were we over bold, we should have to ask for, and yet how often (perhaps after saying “Thank God” so curtly that is only a form of swearing) we are supplicants again within the hour. More things are wrought by prayer than this World dreams of, but he has wisely refrained from saying whether they are good things or bad things. It might perhaps be well if the World were to dream of, or even become wide awake to, some of the things that are being wrought by prayer. If someone is constantly taking from you, but gives nothing in return, it may be time to break ties with that individual. We that fight the living World must have the Universal for succor of truth in it. Cast forth the soul in prayer, you meet the effluence of the outer truth, you join with the creative elements giving breath to you. Prayer, the soul’s overflow, the heart’s resignation, so never let someone tell you that your dreams are unlikely of that your faith is God or interpretation of the Bible is irrational, they are trying to rob you of what God has in store for you. Who raises from prayer a better person means that your prayer is answered.

 

 

There are a thousand familiar disputes which reason can never decide. [A person’s] history is a thing hardly to be predicted, even from the completest knowledge of characteristics. For the tragedy of our lives is not created entirely from within. Chaos is the science of surprise, of the nonlinear and the unpredictable. While most traditional science deals with supposedly predictable phenomena like gravity, electricity, or chemical reactions, Chaos Theory deals with nonlinear things that are effectively impossible to predict or control, like turbulence, weather, the stock market, and people’s emotions.  A man can no more resist the impulse of fate than a wheelbarrow can the force of its driver. These phenomena are often described by fractal mathematics, which captures the infinite complexity of nature. Many natural objects exhibit fractal properties, including landscapes, clouds, trees, rivers, and many of the systems in which we live exhibit complex, chaotic behavior. There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. Destiny is too wise or too cruel for that.

Recognizing the chaotic behavior, fractal nature of our World can give us new insight, power, and wisdom. If the best me do not draw the great prizes in life, we know it has been so settled by the Ordainer of the lottery. Basically series of events seems like they are not connected and random, but they are not. Like how drilling for oil is causing more Earthquakes. It can be difficult to tell from data whether a physical or other observed process is random or chaotic, because in practice no time series consists of a pure signal. There will always be some form of corrupting noise, even if it is present as round off or truncation error. Thus any real time series, even if mostly deterministic, will contain some (pseudo) randomness. However, many events are actually orchestrated to look random, and the more you investigate them, you begin to see a pattern and notice that the events are connected. A great example of this Chaos Theory displayed in the film, Chaos, starring Ryan Phillippe; while weak souls are crushed by fortune, the brave mind maketh the fickle deity afraid of it.

 

Let me entreat thee (my sweet Love) to take all in good part, for it is all my love to thee, and in my love I shall requite thee: I acknowledge, indeed, thou may justly sat to me, as Christ to the Pharisees, Hypocrite, first cast out the beam that is thine own eye and, for whatsoever, I may be in the opinion, yet mine own guilty heart tells me of  far greater things to be reformed in myself and yet I fear there is much more than in my own partial judgement I can discern; just because I have to complain of my pride, unbelief, hardness of heart, and impatience, vanity of mind, unruliness of my affections, stubbornness of my will, ingratitude, and unfaithfulness in the  Covenant of my God, and therefore, (by God’s assistance) I will endeavor that in myself, which I will also desire in thee. Let us search and try our hearts and turn to the Lord: for this is our safety, not our own innocence, but his mercy: If when we were enemies he loved us to reconciliation; much more, being reconciled will he save us from destruction. Lastly for my farewell (for thou sees my loatheness to part with thee makes me to be tedious) take courage unto thee , and clear up thy heart in the Lord, for thou knows that Christ they best husband can never fail thee: he never dies, so as there can be no grief at parting; he never changes, so as once beloved and ever the same: his ability is ever infinite, so as the dowry and inheritance of his sons and daughters can never be diminished. As for me a poor word, dust and ashes, a man full of infirmities, subject to all sins, changes and chances, which befall the sons of men, how should I promise thee anything of myself, or if I should, what credence could thou give thereto, seeing God only is true and every man a lair.

 Yet, so far as a man may presume upon some experience, I may tell thee, that my hope is, that such comfort as thou hast already convinced of my love toward thee, shall (through God’s blessing) be happily continued; his grace shall be sufficient for me, and his power shall be made perfect in my greatest weakness: only let thy godly, kind, and sweet carriage towards me, be as fuel to the fire, to minister a constant supply of meet matter to the confirming and quickening of my dull affection: This is one end why I write so much unto thee, that if there should be any decay in kindness and through my default and slackness  hereafter, thou might have some patterns of our first love by thee, to help the recovery of such diseases: yet let our trust be wholly in God, and let fist constantly follow him by our prayers, complaining and moaning unto him our own poverty, imperfections and unworthiness, until his fatherly affection breaks forth upon us, and he speaks kindly to the hearts of his poor servant, and handmade, for the full assurance of Grace and peace through Christ, to whom I now leave thee (my sweet Spouse and only beloved). God send us a safe and comfortable meeting on Monday morning. Farwell. Remember my love and duty to my Lady thy good mother, with all kind and due salutations to thy uncle E: and all thy brothers and sisters. They husband by promise. My father and mother salute thee heartily with my Lady and the rest. How brilliant and tender is the moon on this night. May your life be like this fantastic night filled with happiness and ecstasy. Without rhythm, there would be no poetry; without colors, could there be life? May Summer endow you with magnificent colors, boundless hopes, and a bright future!   If I had thought my letter would have run to half this length I would have made choice of a larger paper.

 

 

 

I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love. I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love. Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. However, if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away. You are a reflection of chivalry, heroism, action. First you give us an age of deeds, and then an age of computer programs. Someone as great as you comprehend all perfections. You have a soul that is quick to discern, no shade of quality escapes it, and you are so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely ordered variety on the chords of emotion, a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge. One may have that condition by fits only. Being long together makes us remember each other forever. May the flame of strong love spring up in our hearts. How is it that you have said so many fine things about your first love, and so few about the later love? There is a deal to be said, but cannot be put into words. The Early morning always has this touch…whisper…gleam…beat of wings of Eden.

 Last night, in the misty moonlight, I saw you off in secret. Hence there appears a little weeping star in the sky. Prose can paint evening and moonlight, but you are desired to sing the dawn. Missing is warm seabeach turning my missing to blessing and sends to you in the distance. After a passion is excited, there is a danger of tearing it to rags.  Attachment to a favorite system will make the best-informed mind blind. Love, when it is only the consequence of pride gratified, will vanish as soon as that pride is piqued; and will surrender up its place to aversion. When parting draws aside its curtain, when memory sleeps in the chest, it really breaks my heart to say goodbye. Only the dream remains sweet. A pure heart, whether in man or woman, will be always, in every company, on every occasion, pure. The spotless virgin fears not the roaring lion. The purity of hear heart prevents you from seeing the depravity. Who can prove that the enjoyment of the moment also is the purpose of the existence of that moment? If only you can find it, everything has a moral. Love is a rose that captivates the whole Universe. Love is a rose that lets the World prone before it, may you hold this rose! May we jointly open up a stretch of land of love where we will let the seed of fantasy bear real, sweet fruit. You like romance and you also pursue material; you are looking for life, while looking for a dream in your life. May you be happy and satisfactory! Please remember, tomorrow, my dear blessing will be in your solitary life and the song you have sung will be in my colorless years.

 You are a rare bird upon the Earth. By good and strong root, your graces hold to the firm soil of reality. If my wishes will drive your worries away, then, let them blow into your heart. My hopeful smile brings you my infinite love. Your song expresses my fantastic ideal, while the music from my instrument condenses your boundless aspiration. May we perform together a piece of music of happiness. You are like that unerring light within us which, when we are not blinded by passion, will always teach us to distinguish right from wrong. Our reason is our own. Our feelings we inherit. Delivery yourself by permit of your cheque on the Bank of Reason, and your account is increased instead of lessened. I will never forget you and please think of me and come to see me occasionally. May you be satisfactory and happy. Let the sun and blue sky move the clouds and wake up the hidden memory; several words in the letter bring my regards to the faraway lover. May every day turn into a sincere blessing to you. I do not know how to bless you with my eager heart. May you possess a warm smile unexpectedly on your voyage of life at the moment you turn back your head suddenly. There are dreamy flowers in the garden, they are much like a dream. May you dream like a beautiful flower; may the flower in your heart be like the beautiful dream. With your love and my affection, we will build an impeccably happy life.

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When a man gets a good berth, half the deserving must come after. My dear teacher, it is you who brings me out of the innocent World, teach me truth of life, purify my soul, enrich my mind, how can I reward you for all of that? We should not conclude that a man who strives earnestly for success does so with a strong sense of his own merit. He may see how little success has to do with merit, and his motive may be his very blessing. You come in by yourselves, without his direction, what a god is memory? To implore help itself the proof of underset of it. The holiest among us has but attained so far above his fellows as to discern more clearly the Mercy which looks down, and repudiate more utterly the phantom of human excellence which would look aspiringly upward. He that see inferior desert advanced above him will naturally impute that preference to partiality or caprice; and, indeed, it can scarcely be hoped that any man, however magnanimous by nature or exalted by condition, will be able to persist forever in the fixed and inexorable justice of distribution.

 There is a drowsy state, between sleeping and waking, when you dream more in five minutes with your eyes half open, and yourself half conscious of everything that is passing around you, than you would in five nights with your eyes fast closed, and your sense wrap in perfect unconsciousness. At such times, a mortal knows just enough of what his mind is doing, to form some glimmering conception of its mighty powers, it is bounding from Earth, and spurning time and space, when freed from the restraint of it corporeal associate. The heart loves repose and the soul contemplation, but the mind needs action. It is you who turns stone steps, so I step forward. Cutting the clouds as letter papers is not enough for me to write down my thanks. On this lofty platform, you are like a guide sign, directing people forward, one generation after another. Thank you for your guide. What does it matter where my body happens to be? My mind goes on working all the same.

 There is a curious want of system in the English mind. When we are not occupied in making machinery, we are (mentally speaking) the most slovenly people in the Universe. In vast cycles, age after age, the human mind marches on, like the ocean, receding here, but there advancing. In the crossroad of my life, it is you that stretch firmly your warm hands in front of me. The hands are guide signs, so I am firm and clear headed. Thank you forever, my beloved teacher. You are a hard-working cultivator. During a long time after we leave each other, your voice sounds respected. No waves can stop our youthful steps. May you be healthy and happy forever. Strength of mind is improvable, every man’s mind is his best friend, what has ever felt that all his thinking powers were absorbed, even by the most poignant mental misery that could occupy them? In moments of imminent danger, the mind can still travel of its own accord over the past in spite of the present, in moments there is a want of the English mind. Miracles seem impossible just because they break the laws of Nature. There seems something blasphemous in supposing that God can make His own order. You open your hand and satisfy the desires of every living thing. The LORD is righteous in all his way and loving toward all he has made.

 The LORD is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. He fulfills the desires of those who fear him; he hears the cry and saves them. The LORD watches over all who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy. My mouth will speak in praise of the LORD. Let every creature praise his holy name, Ryan Phillippe, forever and ever. I will praise the LORD all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live. Roses spruces in Winter. Without sunshine, how can it have charming and delicate splendor? Oh, LORD, your teachings are more than the warm sunshine of Summer. In this World, no matter how many more years I will live, and how far I will further travel, what I can never forget is your encouragement and expectation. In these special days, dear LORD, how I wish I could once again listen to your endearing inculcation.  No condition, however destitute or degraded, out of which one has a fair prospect, or anything like a rational hope of rising, can justly be considered as utterly miserable.

 May our friendship be like a snowball that rolls further and further and bigger and bigger in the clean and clear snow field. Nothing in the World is better and more pleasing than friendship. Without friends in the World, the World would lose the Sun. Understanding yourself and others and then link the hearts with the understanding, a glutinous reagent, to form an unshakable friendship. May the seed of sincerity be sworn in the heart of your friend and may our friendship be in full bloom. It is suspense, it is hope, that make the food of misery; certainty is always endured, because known to be past amendment, and felt to give defiance to struggling. You are water. You are blue waves with rippled in clear summer, flowing happily. You flow liquor, then my heart is intoxicated. Have you looked at yourself in the mirror? Do you believe that your beauty is matchless, and everyone is infatuated with you? However, I love your soul more than your appearance.

 You are a flame of fire burning violently, brightening my life. I would like to plunge into your heart, melting the whole of myself. Blessed is he whose help is the God of Love, whose hope is in the LORD his GOD, the Maker of Heaven and Earth, the Sea, and everything in them, the LORD, who remains faithful forever. He upholds the cause of the hungry. The LORD sets prisoners free, the LORD gives sight to the blind, the LORD lifts up those who are bowed down, and the LORD loves the righteous, the LORD watches over the alien and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked. Miseries have power over men, and not men over miseries. The patriotism is modified by an indisposition to generalize. No man is in love when he marries. He may have loved before; he has sometimes loved mistress, indeed, he may blush: for if there are any small failings there, his taste may be called in question. A wife is generally nothing more than a household superintendent. Those who marry from love may grow rich; but those who marry rich will never love.

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Can anyone paint the living, breathing soul of a very young and beautiful person? No! If a man had the genius to do so, the very enthusiasm which always attends it would throw him into a very unpainter like raptures at the sight of such a one. Why is beauty given us, unless it be like sunlight to bless a gladden World? Beauty is given to remind us that the soul should be kept as fair and perfect in its proportions as the temple in which it dwells. The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared. The mystery which underlies the beauty of a women is never raised above the reach of all expressions until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls. Nothing in nature is there required to make a woman handsome, but eyes. I have the money and want the beauty; but as times go now, the first will do, so I have the better of my neighbors. Guard against the mischiefs which attend an early knowledge of your own beauty. If a young woman once thinks herself handsome, she never doubts the truth of any man that tells her he is in love with her. Beauty’s a portion, and good humor with it is a double portion. Cheerfulness and content are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of youthful looks. Alas! How few of Nature’s faces are left alone to gladden us with their beauty!

 All beauty is sexless in the eyes of the artist at his work. There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles, from the desperate to the sheepish; but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief, a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you. Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the Earth: it does not wait for beauty, it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. All honor and reverence to the divine of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women, and children, it our gardens and in our houses. However, let us love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of proportion, but in the secret of deep human sympathy. The beauty of a lovely woman is like music. That kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress, plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty. She did not see why women were to be told with a simper that they were beautiful, any more than old men were to be told that they were venerable.

 Much beauty will go long way with the judge and the jury. The vast power of exquisite beauty, which nothing can almost add to or diminish, is eternal. To withdraw admiration from exquisite beauty, or to feel no delight in gazing at it, is as impossible as to feel no warmth from the most scorching rays of the Sun. She was so far from regretting want of beauty, that she never mentioned that perfection without contempt. If thou hast seen things of beauty without knowing what a beauty is, thou hast no eyes; if without feeling its power, thou hast no heart. Fine girls are spoiled by foolish mothers, who are continually trumpeting beauty in their ears without taking any care of their principles and dispositions. Beauty is like lighting, lovely, but destructive. Perhaps to a woman it is almost as dreadful to think of losing beauty as of losing reputation. It is a woman’s duty to be as beautiful as she can. A sensible woman would rather lose her wits then her beauty. There never was a woman that step handsomer in her shoes than Aaliyah did. Descriptions of beauty are never satisfactory. The beauty and glory of a great picture are confined within itself. It is a woeful thing, a sad necessity, that any Christian soul should pass from Earth without once seeing an antique painted window, with the bright Italian sunshine glowing through it. Her beauty shone out and made a halo of the misfortune and ignominy in which she was enveloped.

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Love is the great magnet of life, and religion is love. Love is a flower that grows in any soil. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love. The World’s greatest need…is mutual confidence. No human being ever knows all the secrets of another’s heart. Yet there is enough confidence between people to make social life a practical possibility. Confidence may be risky as mistrust. What is it you need help in relaxing and enjoying yourself? One cannot really learn to enjoy their leisure time by copying anyone. However, one can benefit tremendously by spending more time around people who seem to enjoy life and are fully mindful of their activities and interest. It is important to be around people who are vital, alive, and mostly happy in their outlook. Few things are more pleasure destroying than being around someone who is constantly down on themselves, and the World. Everyone has rough stages in life, but we have to try to do anything safe and in or power to stay happy and mindful. Also, people who like themselves tend to be accepting of other people. The secret to enjoying life is to like yourself. In it also important to be fully present with the people you spend time with. There are some rare and choice souls with whom you feel fully yourself. You know they understand you and accept you for yourself, even when you are weak, strong, silly, and wise. Honesty is the best policy.  Love and labor, two beautiful old fashions that began long ago, with the first pair in Eden; love and bottle were his taste. So fearful is love, so bashful is virginity, that neither has the courage to reveal what each languishes to make known.

The path of poetry is the direct road to love. Love, which softens the heart the most savage and obdurate tyrant, sometimes tempts the most generous mind to wander from the path that leads to virtue and honor. Love is of every age. Love, in general, arises from the pleasure which all men naturally take in whatever they judge or perceive to be good and perfect. To be wise and love is hardly granted to the gods above. Love is capricious and involuntary; reason cannot direct its choice. Love levels all distinction. Love is an encroacher. Charity and religion can be made to fit every shape. Every moment of time solicits to be employed in the important business of love. Love is an ingenious to torment as to flatter. My love is a subject to fear, but a stranger to suspicion. Antiquated people may talk of subjecting love to reason, young ones cannot. Self-love is our ruling passion. We are more able to direct the choice upon which our love is fixed than we can alter our taste for a pineapple, or a nectarine, into an aversion for those fruits, or into a liking or fondness for wormwood or rhubarb. Nothing can add to a woman’s looks like a lover. Love is the soul of harmony, the connecting chain that links the whole frame of being; it is the glory of nature, and the very perfection of humankind. A man to love one woman must love all women. The last test of highest love, passion without sensuality; love is not passion, for one may feel that for many women; not affection, for friendship demands that. Not even sympathy and comradeship; one can find either with men. As soon as a man awakens a woman’s passions, she begins to idealize him and there is no limit to the virtues he will be made to carry. If love is the very best thing in life, it is not the only thing. If a woman does not love at once, it takes a long time to teach her what love is.

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