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We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.

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How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?

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One’s self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

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Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

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It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive, when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-ma...more