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You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

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Bodily haste and exertion usually leave our thoughts very much at the mercy of our feelings and imagination.

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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resist...more

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It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too ti...more