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"God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist."

God, Evil

"My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is."

Experience, Thoughts, Vision, Light

"Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point."

Intelligence, Children, Creation

"O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet."

Help,

"Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature."

Nature, Miracles

"Love is the beauty of the soul."

Beauty, Love, Soul

"It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr."

Cause, Martyr, Punishment

"We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain."

Life, Action, Class, Pain

"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet."

Moderation, Chastity

"There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart."

Heart, Humility

Exlpore more Wisdom quotes

"Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

Wisdom, Being

"There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering."

Theodore Roosevelt, American President

Wisdom, History, Life, Man, Name

"In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Wisdom, Body, Evening, Man

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Wisdom, Heart

"Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value."

Louis L'Amour, American Author

Wisdom, Knowledge, Quantity, Value

"Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary."

Mark Twain, American Author

Wisdom, Emotion

"We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

Wisdom, Country, Majority, May, Nation

"When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough."

Fran Lebowitz, American Journalist

Wisdom, Rest, World

"To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

Wisdom, Equality, Being, Living, Race

"Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

Wisdom, Man, President