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“Mankind are creatures of books, as well as of other circumstances; and such they eternally remain,--proofs, that the race is a noble and believing race, and capable of whatever books can stimulate.”

Believe Wells Book Race Mankind Circumstances Creatures Capable Noble Proof

Book:A Book for a Corner

Source: A Book for a Corner

“Wit is a thing capable of proof.”

Capable Proof Wit

Author:Agnes Repplier

“I find too there are few Friendships in the World Marriage-Proof; especially when the Person our Friend marries has not a Soul particularly capable of the Tenderness of that Endearment ... we may generally conclude the Marriage of a Friend to be the Funeral of a Friendship.”

World May Persons Soul Friendship Capable Proof Funeral Tenderness Endearment

Author:Katherine Philips

“What a proof of the Divine tenderness is there in the human heart itself, which is the organ and receptacle oft so many sympathies! When we consider how exquisite are those conditions by which it is even made capable of so much suffering--the capabilities of a child's heart, of a mother's heart,--what must be the nature of Him who fashioned its depths, and strung its chords.”

Humans Heart Children Made Mother Suffering Conditions Divine Capable Depth Proof Capability Organs Tenderness Human Heart Chords Exquisite

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.”

Mind Heart Two Friendship Strength Friends Goodness Capable Proof Confusion Lasting Steady Romantic Love Real Friends Lasting Love Strength Of Mind Long Lasting Lasting Friendship

Book:The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Memoirs of Thomas Holcroft. Liber amoris. Characteristics

Source: The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Memoirs of Thomas Holcroft. Liber amoris. Characteristics

“I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.”

Want My Own Stupid Capable Intelligent Proof Chains Hotel Perfume Hospitality Blonde Not Stupid Living Proof

Author:Paris Hilton

“Sin is to a nature what blindness is to an eye. The blindness of an evil or defect which is a witness to the fact that the eye was created to see the light and, hence, the very lack of sight is the proof that the eye was meant... to be the one particularly capable of seeing the light. Were it not for this capacity, there would be no reason to think of blindness as a misforture.”

Source: The City of God, Books XVII–XXII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 24)

“A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”

Humans Book Magic Capable Proof Cosmos Shackles

Author:Carl Sagan

“Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic.”

People Writing Humans Book Together Break Magic Citizens Capable Proof Invention Cosmos Binding Shackles Human Inventions

Author:Carl Sagan