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It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.

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Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.

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The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

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Prayer that craves a particular commodity, anything less than all good, is vicious.

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We put our love where we have put our labor.

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In spite of Virtue and the Muse, Nemesis will have her dues, And all our struggles and our toils Tighter wind the giant coils.

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We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.

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Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.

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We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.

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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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Private, accidental, confidential conversation breeds thought. Clubs produce oftener words.

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Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse, if speaking be more grateful than silence. When people come to see us, we foolishly prattle, lest we be inhospitable. But things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

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It depends little on the object, much on the mood, in art.

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You've got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made And people whose skin is a different shade.

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And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it." MARTIN LUTHER, Against the Roman Papacy, An Institution of the Devil London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.

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Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

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Postpone not your life.

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All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.

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Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.

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A man's action is only a poicture book of his creed.

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