“True love goes ever straight forward, not in its own strength, but esteeming itself as nothing. Then indeed we are truly happy. The cross is no longer a cross when there is no self to suffer under it.”

—  François Fénelon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 396.

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