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I believe - I daily find it proved - that we can get nothing in this world worth keeping, not so much as a principle or a conviction, except out of pu...more

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Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as ...more

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At that time, I well remember whatever could excite - certain accidents of the weather, for instance, were almost dreaded by me, because they woke the...more

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Where my soul went during that swoon I cannot tell. Whatever she saw, or wherever she travelled in her trance on that strange night she kept her own s...more

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No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?""They go to hel...more

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-But where are you going to, Helen? Can you see? Do you know?-I believe; I have faith: I am going to God.-Where is God? What is God?-My maker and your...more

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Propensities and principles must be reconciled by some means.

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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of...more

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And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.

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My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood between me and every thought of relig...more

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My spirit is willing to do what is right; and my flesh, I hope, is strong enough to accomplish the will of Heaven

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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion...Appearance should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human doctrines that only te...more

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And what is hell? Can you tell me that?”“A pit full of fire.”“And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?”“No, sir.”“...more

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I know that a stranger's hand will write to me next, to say that the good and faithful servant has been called at length into the joy of his Lord. And...more

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The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.