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  • Verily there is nothing in all Europe so beautiful as Valldemosa. -- Bayard Taylor
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  • Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend. -- Theocritus
  • Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will. -- Samuel Rutherford
  • Verily, affluence brings anxiety! -- Anne Ellis
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  • Verily, a man without fear is either dead or happy to die. -- Wayne Gerard Trotman
  • Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills. -- R. Scott Bakker
  • Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is. -- Zhuangzi
  • Verily, there is no dishonor in death at the hands of a far superior enemy. -- Wayne Gerard Trotman
  • Verily, men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason. -- Gelett Burgess
  • Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from friends. -- Theocritus
  • Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral. -- Khalil Gibran
  • Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Verily, God hath eighteen thousand worlds; and verily, your world is one of them, and this its bright axle-tree. -- Dorothy Dunnett
  • Verily I say unto you all: Arise and shine forth, that thy light may be a standard for the nations. -- Delbert L. Stapley
  • Verily, a man should not cling to those who have passed, for he will likely neglect service to the living. -- Wayne Gerard Trotman
  • Verily, chemistry is not a splitting of hairs when you have got half a dozen raw Irishmen in the laboratory. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • Verily, the weight of half of disbelief in the world is carried by religious people who made God detestable to His servants. -- Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali
  • Verily, God is Compassionate and is fond of compassion, and He gives to the compassionate what He does not give to the harsh. -- Muhammad
  • Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him. -- John the Apostle
  • Path presupposes distance; If He be near, no path needest thou at all. Verily it maketh me smile To hear of a fish in water athirst! -- Kabir
  • Verily, the best of husbands hath many raw edges, and many unnecessary pleats in his temper, and many wrinkles in his disposition, which must be removed. -- Helen Rowland
  • Verily, I constantly renew my Islam until this very day, as up to now, I do not consider myself to have ever been a good Muslim. -- Ibn Taymiyyah
  • Verily, the index finger that testifies to the oneness of Allah Azzawajal in prayer, utterly rejects to write even an alphabet, endorsing the rule of the tyrant -- Sayyid Qutb
  • And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse. -- Khalil Gibran
  • Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape. -- Khalil Gibran
  • Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected himself unto laws. -- Theodore Roosevelt
  • Verily, I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow. -- William Shakespeare
  • Verily, I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow." -- William Shakespeare
  • Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Verily, I swear, it is better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perked up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow. -- William Shakespeare
  • Verily a man cannot serve two masters. And I consider the foundation or destruction of a religion far greater than the foundation or destruction of a state, let alone a party. -- Adolf Hitler
  • So, verily, with every difficulty, there is relief;Verily, with every difficulty there is relief.Therefore, when thou art free (from thine immediate task), still labour hard,And to thy Lord turn [all] thy attention. -- Anonymous
  • But he who truly loves books loves all books alike, and not only this, but it grieves him that all other men do not share with him this noble passion. Verily, this is the most unselfish of loves! -- Eugene Field
  • Verily if with mine own eyes I had seen a priest of God, or any of those who wear the monastic garb, sinning, I would spread my cloak and hide him, that he might not be seen of any. -- John of Salisbury
  • Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must actually be a sea to take in a polluted stream without becoming impure. Behold, I teach you the superman: he is the this sea, in him can your great contempt go under. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Verily, the word of Allah teaches us, and we implicitly believe it, that for a Muslim to kill a Jew, or for him to be killed by a Jew, ensures him immediate entry into Heaven and into the august presence of Allah. -- Ibn Saud
  • The bondage we are born into is the bondage we cannot see. Verily, freedom is little more than the ignorance of tyranny. Live long enough, and you will see: Men resent not the whip so much as the hand that wields it. -- R. Scott Bakker
  • Verily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If I must pity, at least I do not want it known; and if I do pity, it is preferably from a distance. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • In exactly the same way, ... scatter your body, your feeling, your perception, your predispositions, your discriminative consciousness, break them up, knock them down, cease to play with them, apply yourself to the destruction of craving for them. Verily, ... the extinction of craving is Nirvana. -- Gautama Buddha
  • The dunyâ distracts and preoccupies the heart and body, but al-zuhd (asceticism, not giving importance to worldly things) gives rest to the heart and body. Verily, Allâh will ask us about the halâl things we enjoyed, so what about the harâm! -- Hasan of Basra
  • Man and man's earth are unexhausted and undiscovered. Wake and listen! Verily, the earth shall yet be a source of recovery. Remain faithful to the earth, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • The rain does not fall in a certain land only; the sun does not shine only on a particular country. All that comes from God is for all souls. Verily, blessing is for every soul; for every soul, whatever be one's faith or belief, belongs to God. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters. -- Khalil Gibran
  • Verily I say unto you, he that heareth my word and believeth on Him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life." My friend, that is worth more than all the feeling you can have in a life-time. -- Dwight L. Moody
  • Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger. -- Abu Bakr
  • Follow the way of life, which the Holy Prophet has shown you, for verily that is the right path. -- Abu Bakr
  • From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious. -- Dada Vaswani
  • In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
  • And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them. -- Helen Rowland
  • For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all. -- Leonardo da Vinci
  • Some, I verily believe, delight to be slave-men; it is a joy to them, and they would not change their condition; not only miserable village wretches, but men in good position, well-to-do sycophants. -- Richard Jefferies
  • Love is verily the heart of all religions. -- Ramana Maharshi
  • The sharp employ the sharp; verily, a man may be known by his attorney. -- Douglas William Jerrold
  • It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences. -- Martin Luther
  • If Hell were possible, it would be the shortest cut to the highest heaven. For verily God loveth. -- Sri Aurobindo
  • I do verily believe that a single, consolidated government would become the most corrupt government on the earth. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself. -- Saadi
  • And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Foolishness is indeed painful, and verily so is youth, but more painful by far than either is being obliged in another person's house. -- Chanakya
  • And verily for everything that a slave loses there is a substitute, but the one who loses Allah will never find anything to replace Him. -- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
  • I verily believe that I never took infant in my arms that did not the moment it was there by its cries beg to be removed. -- Dorothy Wordsworth
  • I verily believe that her not remembering and not minding in the least, made me cry again, inwardly - and that is the sharpest crying of all. -- Charles Dickens
  • All Chaos was once yer kingdom; verily, held ye dominion over the entire Pentaverse, but today ye was sore afraid in dark coners, nooks, and sink holes. -- Robert Anton Wilson
  • It may be asked, why there cannot be one and the same path for all? Because He reveals Himself in infinite ways and forms - verily, The One is all of them. -- Anandamayi Ma
  • Death happens to the body with which it is associated, with which it mixes. The delusion that the body is the core, that the body is real, that verily is the death. -- Sathya Sai Baba
  • There is no subsititue for fishing sense, and if a man doesn't have it, verily, he may cast like an angel and still use his creel largely to transport sandwiches and beer -- John D. Voelker
  • The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it. -- Richard Steele
  • Thus it is that "Some things are increased by being diminished, others are diminished by being increased." What others have taught, I also teach; verily, I will make it the root of my teaching. -- Laozi
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  • For I am verily persuaded the generality of preachers talk of an unknown and unfelt Christ; and the reason why congregations have been so dead is, because they have had dead men preaching to them. -- Gilbert Tennent
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