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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

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Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point which means at the point of highest reality.

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If you are foe, we do not fear you. If you are friend, your foes will be taught the fear of us.

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The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons...more

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and yet…' he said, 'and yet, father, I am terribly afraid. I am afraid that the things the Landlord really intends for me may be utterly unlike the th...more

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Hatred has its pleasures. It is therefore often the compensation bywhich a frightened man reimburses himself for the miseries of Fear. The more he fea...more

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If there is a wasp in the room, I’d like to be able to see it.

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Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.

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The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.

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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the sam...more

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For my own part, I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I rather suspect that the same exper...more

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If we really believe what we say we believe- if we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a "wandering to find home", why should we...more

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An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood ...more