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“Many there are who, not comprehending, not being affected with, that divine, spiritual description of the person of Christ which is given us by the Holy Ghost in the Scripture, do feign unto themselves false representations of him by images and pictures, so as to excite carnal and corrupt affections in their minds. By the help of their outward senses, they reflect on their imaginations the shape of a human body, cast into postures and circumstances dolorous or triumphant; and so, by the working of their fancy, raise a commotion of mind in themselves, which they suppose to be love unto Christ.”

Source: The Person of Christ

“Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less favorable circumstances a hundred times before.”

Firsts Faces Realizing Imagination Figures Expression Circumstances Degrees Hundred Perfection Sight Meetings Casts Love At First Sight

Book:New writings by Willam Hazlitt

Source: New writings by Willam Hazlitt

“You do not become a ''dissident'' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.”

Wells Ends Responsibility Enemy Careers Position Circumstances One Day Conflict Structure Complexes Casts Thrown Patriotism Unusual Dissent Sense Of Responsibility Dissidents Branded

Author:Vaclav Havel

“Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the die for any tempted and trembling sinner; and it fell out with me, as it falls with so vast a majority of my fellows, that I chose the better part and was found wanting in the strength to keep to it.”

Men Dies Fall Found Term Strange Circumstances Fellows Majority Casts Debate Sinner Tempted Commonplace Alarms Trembling

Book:The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, second edition

Source: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, second edition