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Rh The youth of the soul is everlasting, and eternity is youth. —.

Eternity has no gray hairs! The flowers fade, the heart withers, man grows old and dies, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of Eternity. —.

The tree will not only lie as it falls, but it will fall as it leans. What is the inclination of my soul? —.

Eternity forbids thee to forget. —.

Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil; I observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape it, and with this I begin and end. —.

Nothing is to be esteemed evil which God and nature have fixed with eternal sanction. —.

The cardinal method with faults is to overgrow them and choke them out with virtues. —.

Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault. —.