“To have loved and lost, either by that total disenchantment which leaves compassion as the sole substitute for love which can exist no more, or by the slow torment which is obliged to let go day by day all that constitutes the diviner part of love - namely, reverence, belief, and trust, yet clings desperately to the only thing left it, a long-suffering apologetic tenderness - this lot is probably the hardest any woman can have to bear.” LongSufferingBeliefLostLeftCompassionBearsLetting GoHardestSubstitutesReverenceSoleTendernessTormentObligedApologeticLong SufferingDisenchantmentLoved And Lost Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
“Few things have done more harm than the belief on the part of individuals or groups (or tribes or states or nations or churches) that he or she or they are in sole possession of the truth: especially about how to live, what to be and do - and that those who differ from them are not merely mistaken, but wicked or mad: and need restraining or suppressing.” NeedsStatesDoneIndividualBeliefNationsChurchGroupsMadPossessionHarmWickedSoleMistakenTribesSuppressingRestraining Author:Isaiah Berlin
“It was truly very good reason that we should be beholden to God only, and to the favour of his grace, for the truth of so noble a belief, since from his sole bounty we receive the fruit of immortality, which consists in the enjoyment of eternal beatitude.... The more we give and confess to owe and render to God, we do it with the greater Christianity.” GivingShouldReasonBeliefChristianityGreaterGraceEternalFruitVery GoodNobleImmortalityEnjoymentSoleFavourBounty Book:Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor) Source: Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)