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God enters by a private door into every individual.

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Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it--else it is none.

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Fear always springs from ignorance.

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He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his fat...more

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All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.

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Fear is an instructor of great sagacity and the herald of all revolutions.

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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

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Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those most sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God with...more

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Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

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So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man,When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.

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When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope t...more

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A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of...more

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Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth. In like man...more

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I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.

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Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blad...more