Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.


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To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man app...
JOSEPH CONRAD
As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are.Ê.
JOSEPH FARRELL
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, ...
JOSEPH ADDISON
If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his gove...
JOSEPH STALIN
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. -Joseph Joubert.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard....
JOSEPH JOUBERT
He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
Myth is what we call other people's religion.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how relia...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, ar...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
We live as we dream--alone....
JOSEPH CONRAD
There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is n...
JOSEPH PULITZER
Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.
JOSEPH CONRAD
He did not care what the end would be, and in his lucid moments overvalued his indifference. The dan...
JOSEPH CONRAD
Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fea...
JOSEPH HELLER
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk maki...
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY
The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN
The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different com...
JOSEPH CONRAD
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
JOSEPH BRODSKY
I remember on one of my many visits with JOSEPH LEWIS I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your ow...
JOSEPH CONRAD
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
JOSEPH ADDISON
I remember staying to look at it for a long time, as one would linger within reach of a consoling wh...
JOSEPH CONRAD
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
JOSEPH CONRAD
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
JOSEPH BARTH
It is worse than a crime: it is a mistake.
JOSEPH FOUCHE
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
The question that is so clearly in many potential parents minds: Why should we stunt our ambitions a...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER
Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The g...
JOSEPH SUGARMAN
Anyone who has had an experience of mystery knows that there is a dimension of the universe that is ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
An old Apache storyteller reminds us:

JOSEPH CAMPBELL
We are odd compounds full of explosive material to which circumstances may at any time apply a spark...
JOSEPH FARRELL
Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to...
JOSEPH CANNON
We always plan too much and always think too little.
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and temp...
JOSEPH CONRAD
Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!
JOSEPH ROUX
Perfection is the child of time.
JOSEPH HALL
Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.
JOSEPH CONRAD
There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.
JOSEPH ROUX
Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
JOSEPH JOUBERT