"To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun."
-Robert Burton
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"Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.“
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"What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning."
-Robert Burton
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"Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun."
-Robert Burton
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"One was never married, and that's his hell another is, and that's his plague."
-Robert Burton
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"To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun."
-Robert Burton
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"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
-Marilyn Monroe
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-J. R. R. Tolkien
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"I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels."
-Pearl S. Buck
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"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death."
-Miguel de Unamuno
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"Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable."
-H. L. Mencken
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"Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals."
-Albert Schweitzer
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