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“They proved to me by convincing reasons that God does not exist; Afterwards I saw God, for he came and embraced me. And now what am I to believe- the reasoning of others or my own experience? Truth is what the soul has seen and experienced; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.”

Believe Doe Soul Reason God My Own Opinion Saws Truth Is Prejudice Appearance Reasoning Convincing

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“Commerce however we may please ourselves with the contrary opinion, is one of the daughters of fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her mother. She chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her abode when her continuance is, in appearance, most firmly settled.”

May Mother Opinion Please Daughter Fortune Appearance Expected Contrary Commerce Deceitful Abode Residence Continuance

Book:The works of Samuel Johnson, with Murphy's essay, ed. by R. Lynam

Source: The works of Samuel Johnson, with Murphy's essay, ed. by R. Lynam

“My own opinion is that youthfulness of feeling is retained, as is youthfulness of appearance, by constant use of the intellect.”

Use Feelings Age My Own Opinion Constant Appearance Intellect Youthfulness

Author:Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

“There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond; And do a willful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dressed in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity profound conceit; As who should say, I am sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!”

Men Should Wisdom Purpose Opinion Dog Standing Profound Lips Appearance Stillness Gravity Cream Conceit Bark Merchants Ponds Oracles Self-importance Merchant Of Venice

Author:William Shakespeare

“Many great persons have been of opinion that love is no other thing than complacency itself, in which they have had much appearance of reason. For not only does the movement of love take its origin from the complacency which the heart feels at the first approach of good, and find its end in a second complacency which returns to the heart by union with the thing beloved--but further, it depends for its preservation on this complacency, and can only subsist through it as through its mother and nurse; so that as soon as the complacency ceases, love ceases.”

Source: The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]

“Governments may change, and opinions, and the very appearance of lands themselves, but the slowest thing to change is religion. What has once been associated with worship becomes holy in itself, and self-perpetuating, always built upon the foundation of mingled awe and attraction which the unknown has for the mind of man.”

Men Mind May Self Government Religion Opinion Land Holy Worship Built Foundation Appearance Attraction Awe Perpetuating

Book:Personal geography: almost an autobiography

Source: Personal geography: almost an autobiography

“Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.”

Sometimes Literature Inspiring Opinion Humility Prejudice Appearance Deceit Boast Hype Indirect Deceitful Carelessness Pride And Prejudice Pride Pride And Humility Pride And Prejudice Book

Book:Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1

Source: Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1