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The Virgin
«So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.»
Author: Harold Acton
(Writer)
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«You have no questions to ask of any body, no new way that you need inquire after; no oracle that you need to consult; for whilst you shut yourself up in patience, meekness, humility, and resignation to God, you are in the very arms of Christ, your heart is His dwelling-place, and He lives and works in you as certainly as He lived in and governed that body and soul which He took from the Virgin Mary.»
Author: William Law
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«Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.»
«If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.»
Author: Margaret Atwood
(Writer)
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Catholicism, convert, Mary, saints, The Virgin, the Virgin Mary, Virgin, Virgin Mary
«The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
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«The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.»
«Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.»