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When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief.

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Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.

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It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists.

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The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him[,] not the storm without.

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I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion of well-doing and daring.

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How beautiful to have the church always open, so that every tired wayfaring man may come in and be soothed by all that art can suggest of a better world when he is weary with this.

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Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

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Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims.

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Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism.

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Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.

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The good husband finds method as efficient in the packing of fire-wood in a shed, or in the harvesting of fruits in the cellar, as in Peninsular campaigns or the files of the Department of State.

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Accept your genius and say what you think.

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The world is all outside, it has no inside.

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There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue.

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We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

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Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

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The idea of God ends in a paltry Methodist meeting-house.

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The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

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All writing comes by the grace of God.

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A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspend their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward; a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet.

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