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“Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings.”

May Fool Tests Inward

Book:Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art

Source: Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art

“For man may pious texts repeat, And yet religion have no inward seat”

Men May Religion Repeats Seats Inward Pious

Book:The poetical works of Thomas Hood, ed. by W.M. Rossetti

Source: The poetical works of Thomas Hood, ed. by W.M. Rossetti

“Surely the mischief of hypocrisy can never be enough inveighed against. When religion is in request, it is the chief malady of the church, and numbers die of it; though because it is a subtle and inward evil, it be little perceived. It is to be feared there are many sick of it, that look well and comely in God's outward worship, and they may pass well in good weather, in times of peace; but days of adversity are days of trial.”

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Author:Joseph Hall

“Doubtless almost any intense emotion may open our 'inward eye' to the beauty of reality. Falling in love appears to do it for some people. The beauties of nature or the exhilaration of artistic creation does it for others. Probably any high experience may momentarily stretch our souls up on tiptoe, so that we catch a glimpse of that marvelous beauty which is always there, but which we are not often tall enough to perceive.”