We speak of persons as jovial, as being born under the planet Jupiter or Jove, which was the … - Richard Chenevix Trench

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The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.

Richard Chenevix Trench

We speak of persons as jovial, as being born under the planet Jupiter or Jove, which was the joyfullest star and the happiest augury of all. A gloomy person was said to be saturnine, as being born under the planet Saturn, who was considered to make those who owned his influence, and were born when he was in the ascendant, grave and stern as himself.

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None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it.

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Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning.

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