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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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