Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
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Zum Autor"Good and evil both increase at compound interest."
"And certainly both Horses were doing, if not all they could, all they thought they could; which is not quite the same thing."
"We meet no ordinary people in our lives."
"I who know many present things by my art,' replied the Hermit with a smile, 'have yet little knowledge of things future. Therefore I do not know whether any man or woman or beast in the whole world will be alive when the sun sets tonight. But be of good hope. The damsel is likely to live as long as any her age."
"The Enemy wants him, in the end, to be so free from any bias in his own favour that he can rejoice in his own talents as frankly and gratefully as in his neighbour's talents--or in a sunrise, an elephant, or a waterfall."
"My prayer is that when I die, all of hell rejoices that I am out of the fight."