Now it must be asked if we can comprehend why comets signify the death of magnates and coming wars, for writers of philosophy say so. The reason is n…

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It is by the path of love, which is charity, that God draws near to man, and man to God. But where charity is not found, God cannot dwell. If, then, …

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Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.

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Banish, therefore, from thy heart the distractions of earth and turn thine eyes to spiritual joys, that thou mayest learn at last to repose in the li…

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In this way, if you continue all the time in the way we have described from the beginning, it will become as easy and clear for you to remain in cont…

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Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure in herself. What she cannot get, she s…

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I have never gone out to mingle with the world without losing something of myself.

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Evidence of this [transformation of animals into fossils] is that parts of aquatic animals and perhaps of naval gear are found in rock in hollows on …

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The greater and more persistent your confidence in God, the more abundantly you will receive all that you ask.

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