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All men in the abstract are just and good.

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We begin with friendships, and all our youth is a reconnoitering and recruiting of the holy fraternity they shall combine for thesalvation of men. But so the remoter stars seem a nebula of united light, yet there is no group which a telescope will not resolve; and the dearest friends are separated by impassable gulfs.

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Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

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When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the show fiber has passed into your body.

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Some will always be above others.

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Of all wit's uses, the main one is to live well with who has none.

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The highest end of government is the culture of men.

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The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature. We are not built like a ship to be tossed, but like a house to stand.

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Give all to love; Obey thy heart.

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There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle.

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Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.

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Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge; yet not the details, but the quality. What part does he play in them - a cheerful, manly part, or a poor, drivelling part? However monstrous and grotesque their apparitions, they have a substantial truth.

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Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed, Cannot withhold his conquering aid.

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The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.

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Whenever the average intellect of the clergy declines in the balance with the average intellect of the people the churches will be shut up and a new order of things [will] begin.

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Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject; and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.

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The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as he can, and hopes he has done justice and given satisfaction to the community

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I appeal now to the convictions of the communicants, and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a painful confusion of thought between the worship due to God and the commemoration due to Christ.

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The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.

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Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

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