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“The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.”
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Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
#Love Quotes
#Heartbreak Quotes
#Doe Quotes
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“Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.”
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Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
Source : "Quote Unquote : A Handbook of Quotations" by M. P. Singh, (p. 96), 2007.
#Soul Quotes
#Charity Quotes
#Grandeur Quotes
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“O death! We thank you for the light that you will shed upon our ignorance.”
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Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
#Death Quotes
#Ignorance Quotes
#Light Quotes
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“The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.”
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Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
Source : "Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture". Book by Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, edited by Patrick Riley, 1990.
#Fear Quotes
#Weakness Quotes
#Too Much Quotes
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“Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous dying. - Jacques”
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Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
#Life Quotes
#Character Quotes
#Preparation Quotes
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“The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.”
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Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
Source : "A Book of French Quotations" edited by Norbert Guterman, 1963.
#Life Quotes
#Boredom Quotes
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“I love to thik of my little children whom God has called to himself as away at school-at the best school in the universe, under the best teachers, learning the best things, in the best possible manner. O death! We thank thee for the light that thou wilt shed upon our ignorance.”
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Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
#Love Quotes
#Teacher Quotes
#Children Quotes
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“Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by a single flaw.”
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Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
Source : "The Forbes Book of Business Quotations" by Edward C. Goodman, Ted Goodman, (p. 411), 1997.
#Eye Quotes
#Honor Quotes
#Suffering Quotes
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“In the midst of the disguises and artifices that reign among men, it is only attention and vigilance that can save us from surprises.”
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Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
Source : Jacques Bénigne Bossuet, Patrick Riley (1990). “Bossuet: Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture”, p.132, Cambridge University Press
#Men Quotes
#Attention Quotes
#Reign Quotes
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“The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.”
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Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
#Believe Quotes
#Want Quotes
#Spirit Quotes
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“Truth is a queen who has her eternal throne in heaven, and her seat of empire in the heart of God.”
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Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
#Queens Quotes
#Truth Quotes
#Heart Quotes
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“To know one's self, one must go all the way to horror.”
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Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
#Self Quotes
#Way Quotes
#Horror Quotes
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“An Indian philosopher, being asked what were, according to his opinion, the two most beautiful things in the universe, answered: The starry heavens above our heads, and the feeling of duty in our hearts.”
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Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
#Beauty Quotes
#Beautiful Quotes
#Heart Quotes
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“The spirit of the world encloses four kinds of spirits, diametrically opposed to charity--the spirit of resentment, spirit of aversion, spirit of jealousy and the spirit of indifference.”
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Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
#World Quotes
#Charity Quotes
#Four Quotes
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“The greatest of all weaknesses is the fear of appearing weak.”
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Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
#Weakness Quotes
#Weak Quotes
#Appearing Quotes
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“Well-meant ignorance is a grievous calamity in high places.”
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Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
#Ignorance Quotes
#Calamity Quotes
#Wells Quotes
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“Every error is truth abused.”
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Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
#Errors Quotes
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“The world itself makes us sick of the world.”
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Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
#Work Quotes
#Sick Quotes
#World Quotes
