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“You can love a person deeply and sincerely whom you do not like. You can like a person passionately whom you do not love.”
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Robert Hugh Benson
Source : Robert Hugh Benson (1915). “Spiritual Letters of Monsignor R. Hugh Benson to One of His Converts”
#Like You Quotes
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“I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct.”
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Robert Hugh Benson
#Thinking Quotes
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#Desire Quotes
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“Ignorance may be bliss, but it certainly is not freedom, except in the minds of those who prefer darkness to light and chains to liberty. The more true information we can acquire, the better for our enfranchisement.”
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Robert Hugh Benson
#Ignorance Quotes
#Light Quotes
#Darkness Quotes
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“The Church must be intelligible to the simple as well as to the shrewd.”
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Robert Hugh Benson
#Simple Quotes
#Church Quotes
#Wells Quotes
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“The union of the family lies in love; and love is the only reconciliation of authority and liberty.”
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Robert Hugh Benson
Source : Robert Hugh Benson (2015). “Dawn of All”, p.31, Booklassic
#Love Quotes
#Lying Quotes
#Liberty Quotes
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“It is only the souls that do not love that go empty in this world.”
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Robert Hugh Benson
Source : Robert Hugh Benson (2012). “The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary”, p.35, tredition
#Love Quotes
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“Competition, founded upon the conflicting interests of individuals, is in reality far less productive of wealth and enterprise than co-operation, involving though it does the constant apparent sacrifice of the individual to the common interests.”
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Robert Hugh Benson
#Sacrifice Quotes
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“While friendship itself has an air of eternity about it, seeming to transcend all natural limits, there is hardly any emotion so utterly at the mercy of time. We form friendships, and grow out of them. It might almost be said that we cannot retain the faculty of friendship unless we are continually making new friends.”
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Robert Hugh Benson
Source : Robert Hugh Benson (1912). “The Friendship of Christ”
#Air Quotes
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#Might Quotes
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“Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net containing bad and good.”
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Robert Hugh Benson
#Spiritual Quotes
#Intellectual Quotes
#Society Quotes
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“It seems to me probably that any one who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been responsible for them to some extent... they have contributed to it by impatience or intolerance, or brusqueness-or some provocation.”
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Robert Hugh Benson
#Impatience Quotes
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