“In the same way that a powerful medicine cures an illness, so illness itself is a medicine to cure passion. And there is much profit of soul in bearing illness quietly and giving thanks to God.” WayGivingSoulSufferingPassionPowerfulMedicineSaintProfitIllnessCuresThanks Author:Syncletica of Alexandria
“We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits--so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth-- 'Tis then we get the right good from a book.” BookSoulHelpingReadingForgetProfoundProfitSaltPlungeCalculatingImpassioned Book:Poetical works Source: Poetical works
“To be rich, to be famous? do these profit a year hence, when other names sound louder than yours, when you lie hidden away under ground, along with the idle titles engraven on your coffin? But only true love lives after you, follows your memory with secret blessings or pervades you, and intercedes for you. Non omnis moriar, if, dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am lost and hopeless, living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays for me.” IfsYearsHeartStillsTwoSoulLyingNamesLostSoundMemoriesSecretRichDyingPrayingBlessingFameProfitTitlesLove LifeHopelessIdleOur MemoriesCoffinsDepartedPray For MeTender HeartsDeparted Soul Book:The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne: Written by Himself Source: The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne: Written by Himself