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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles...more

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(Quoted by Thomas Carlyle) The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more refinement must be made to feel. The man of complete ...more

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If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.

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Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher some spiritual hero.

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The whole universe is but a huge Symbol of god".

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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

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His religion at best is an anxious wish - like that of Rebelais a great Perhaps.

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Today is not yesterday how can our works and thoughts if they are always to be the fittest continue always the same? Change indeed is painful ye...more

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Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

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Be not a slave of words.

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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.

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If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.

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One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities.

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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

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Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.