A Quote by Sophie Swetchine
We are amused through the intellect, but it is the heart that saves us from ennui.
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Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey.
Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.
It is not repentance per se that saves man. It is the blood of Jesus Christ that saves us.
One of ennui's most terribel components is the overwhelming feeling of ennui that comes over you whenever you try to explain it.
Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
Intellect is a part of a good faith. Intellect is the light, the heart is the direction.
True religion extends alike to the intellect and the heart. Intellect is in vain if it lead not to emotion, and emotion is vain if not enlightened by intellect; and both are vain if not guided by truth and leading to duty.
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