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18 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

The Character of Shimel. The life of any one can by no means be changed after death; an evil life can in no wise be converted into a good life, or an infernal into an angelic life: because every spirit, from head to foot, is of the character of his love, and, therefore, of his life; and to convert this life into its opposite, would be to destroy the spirit utterly.— filed under Chaos

Grandeur of Nations With every man there are good spirits and evil spirits; by good spirits, man has conjunction with heaven, and by evil spirits with hell.— filed under Character

Charity itself consists in acting justly and faithfully in whatever office, business and employment a person is engaged in.— filed under Charity

A man after death is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself.— filed under Death

So far as any one shuns evils, so far he does good. aa.— filed under Aristophanes

The divine essence itself is love and wisdom.— filed under God

Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell. S.— filed under Help

S. Man is so created that as to his internal he cannot die; for he is capable of believing in God, and thus of being conjoined to God by faith and love, and to be conjoined to God is to live to eternity.— filed under Immortality

Man is an organ of life, and God alone is life.— filed under Life

Par. 504. What ought to be more dear to a man than his life to eternity?— filed under Life

Conjugial love is celestial, spiritual, and holy, because it corresponds to the celestial, spiritual, and holy marriage of the Lord and the Church. S.— filed under Love

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.— filed under Love

Par. 31. Love is the life of man.— filed under Love

Par. 1. The love that reigns in the celestial kingdom is love to the Lord, and the light of truth thence derived is wisdom.— filed under Love

The omnipotence of God shines forth from the universe.— filed under Power

Religion has nothing more to fear than not being sufficiently understood. STANISLAUS (King of Poland)- Maxims. No. 36. The third essential of God's love, to make others happy from itself, is recognized in the gift of eternal life, which is blessedness, satisfaction, and happiness without end.— filed under Religion

Addresses. Cui Bono? Thought can never be compared with action, but when it awakens in us the image of truth. MADAME DE STAËL Germany. Pt. I. Ch. VIII. What a man thinks in his spirit in the world, that he does after his departure from the world when he becomes a spirit. X.— filed under Thought

To compel man to Divine Worship by threats and punishments is injurious. Forced worship shuts evils in; which then lie hidden like fires in wood beneath the ashes, that continually foment and spread until they burst forth into a flame.— filed under Worth