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For the Holy Spirit comes in the Father’s and in the Son’s name and authority, to put the last hand to the work of our salvation, by bringing all the fruits of election and redemption home to our souls in this work.

—John Flavel

I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared.

And it was after that that I found out the truth.

I learnt the truth last November on the third of November, to be precise and I remember every instant since.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky

But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky

A person who knows he’s going to die in thirty minutes won’t do anything vain, stupid or, most of all, bad in that last half hour. But isn’t the half-century that might separate you from death the same as thirty minutes?

—Leo Tolstoy

“Let the morning break with thoughts of Christ, and let your last thought at night be sweetened with his presence.”

Charles Spurgeon

Are you tried by your sin?

Jesus rose for your justification.

Does Satan accuse?

Jesus rose to be your advocate.

Do infirmities hinder?

The living Christ will show himself strong on your behalf.

Do you dread death?

Jesus has vanquished the last enemy.”

— Charles Spurgeon

Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.

—Franz Kafka

For the Holy Spirit comes in the Father’s and in the Son’s name and authority, to put the last hand to the work of our salvation, by bringing all the fruits of election and redemption home to our souls in this work.

—John Flavel

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.

—Ernest Hemingway

Love the animals, love the plants, love everything.

If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things.

Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day.

And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky

Love the animals, love the plants, love everything.

If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things.

Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day.

And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Father has elected, and the Son has redeemed; but until the Spirit (who is the last cause) has wrought his part also, we cannot be saved.

—John Flavel

I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.

—Charles Dickens

Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome.

Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome.

The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer.

What we see is the blossom, which passes.

The rhizome remains.

—Carl Jung

Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome.

Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome.

The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer.

What we see is the blossom, which passes.

The rhizome remains.

—Carl Jung

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

—Plato

The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.

—Julius Caesar

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

—Charles Dickens

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

—Blaise Pascal

I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.

—Marcus Aurelius

This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

—Plato

Today it is bad, and day by day it will get worse―until at last the worst of all arrives.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

Speak every time, my dear brother, as if it was your last; weep out, if possible, every argument, and as it were compel them to cry, Behold how he loveth us.

—George Whitefield

The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.

—Blaise Pascal

Reason’s last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it.

—Blaise Pascal

You have been the last dream of my soul.

—Charles Dickens

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

—Leonardo Da Vinci