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It is with fiction as with re...

It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.

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All we discover has been with...

All we discover has been with us since the sun began to roll; and much we discover, is not worth the discovering.

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How feeble is all language to...

How feeble is all language to describe the horrors we inflict upon these wretches, whom we mason up in the cells of our prisons, and condemn to perpetual solitude in the very heart of our population.

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Are there no Moravians in the...

Are there no Moravians in the Moon, that not a missionary has yet visited this poor pagan planet of ours, to civilise civilisation and christianise Christendom?

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No town-bred dandy will compa...

No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one- I mean a downright bumpkin dandy- a fellow that, in the dog-days of summer, will mow his two acres in buckskin gloves for fear of tanning his hands.

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Human madness is oftentimes a...

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.

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Ignorance is the parent of fe...

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

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It is better to fail in origi...

It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.

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We may have civilized bodies ...

We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us.

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Silence is the only Voice of ...

Silence is the only Voice of our God.

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There's magic in the water th...

There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.

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That hour in the life of a ma...

That hour in the life of a man when first the help of humanity fails him, and he learns that in his obscurity and indigence humanity holds him a dog and no man: that hour is a hard one, but not the hardest. There is still another hour which follows, when he learns that in his infinite comparative minuteness and abjectness, the gods do likewise despise him, and own him not of their clan.

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All Profound things, and emot...

All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence... Silence is the general consecration of the universe. Silence is the invisible laying on of the Divine Pontiff's hands upon the world. Silence is at once the most harmless and the most awful thing in all nature. It speaks of the Reserved Forces of Fate. Silence is the only Voice of our God.

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What plays the mischief with ...

What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.

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You cannot hide the soul. ...

You cannot hide the soul.

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We are only what we are; not ...

We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.

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Take almost any path you plea...

Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream. There is magic in it. Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries--stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor. Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.

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Man is a money-making animal,...

Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.

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In this world of lies, Truth ...

In this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a scared white doe in the woodlands; and only by cunning glimpses will she reveal herself, as in Shakespeare and other masters of the great Art of Telling the Truth, even though it be covertly, and by snatches.

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We cannot live for ourselves ...

We cannot live for ourselves alone.

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