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The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.

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We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

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...one should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.

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I do love compliments, yet I'm often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment. I so often feel that they have not gone far enough.

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Water is an individual, an animal, and is alive, remove the hydrogen and it is an animal and is alive; the remaining oxygen is also an individual, an animal, and is alive. Recapitulation: the two individuals combined, constitute a third individual-and yet each continues to be an individual....here was mute Nature explaining the sublime mystery of the Trinity so luminously that even the commonest understanding could comprehend it, whereas many a trained master of words had labored to do it with speech and failed.

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Man proposes, but God blocks the game.

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Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

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The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

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We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a boon. Its name is public opinion. It is held in reverence. Some think it the voice of God.

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A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

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Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in.

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The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter.

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Suddenly the nickel-clad horse takes the bit in its mouth and goes slanting for the curbstone defying all prayers and all your powers to change its mind - your heart stands still, your breath hangs fire, your legs forget to work.

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Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.

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It is easy to see that the inventor of the heaven did not originate the idea, but copied it from the show-ceremonies of some sorry little sovereign State up in the back settlements of the Orient somewhere.

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A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.

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Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little as that, He is beneath it.

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

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Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.

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Simple rules for saving money: To save half, when you are fired by an eager impulse to contribute to a charity, wait and count to forty. To save three quarters, count sixty. To save all, count sixty-five.

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