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“Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.”
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“The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.”
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“Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in.”
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“The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it.”
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“Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.”
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“People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.”
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“There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.”
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“The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing.”
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“There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop.”
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“In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot.”
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“If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer.”
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“In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression.”
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“Seeking is not always the way to find.”
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“How often one sees people looking far and wide for what they are holding in their hands? Why! I am doing it myself at this very moment.”
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“They who boast of their tolerance merely give others leave to be as careless about religion as they are themselves. A walrus might as well pride itself on its endurance of cold.”
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“How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered.”
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“They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not always noon.”
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“Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it.”
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“Some persons take reproof good-humoredly enough, unless you are so unlucky as to hit a sore place. Then they wince and writhe, and start up and knock you down for your impertinence, or wish you good morning.”
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“...the thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the healthful activity of the body, with the fresh and wakeful breezes blowing round it...”
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“Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild.”
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“What do our clergy lose by reading their sermons? They lose preaching, the preaching of the voice in many cases, the preaching of the eye almost always.”
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“True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them.”
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“Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure.”
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“It is said that Windham, when he came to the end of a speech, often found himself so perplexed by his own subtlety that he hardly knew which way he was going to give his vote. This is a good illustration of the fallaciousness of reasoning, and of the uncertainties which attend its practical application.”
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“Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.”
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“Moral prejudices are the stopgaps of virtue; and, as is the case with other stopgaps, it is often more difficult to get either out or in through them than through any other part of the fence.”
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“There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes.”
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“Books, as Dryden has aptly termed them, are spectacles to read nature. Aeschylus and Aristotle, Shakespeare and Bacon, are priests who preach and expound the mysteries of man and the universe. They teach us to understand and feel what we see, to decipher and syllable the hieroglyphics of the senses.”
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“Christianity has carried civilization along with it, whithersoever it has gone; and, as if to show that the latter does not depend on physical causes, some of the countries the most civilized in the day's of Augustus are now in a state of hopeless barbarism.”
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