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I like the silence of a church, before the servic

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I like the silence of a church, before the service begins better than any preaching.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that yo

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if yo

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Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a maste

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A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best

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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

We are always getting ready to live but never liv

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We are always getting ready to live but never living.

For each new morning with its light, For rest

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For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand t

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We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our sp

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In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.

For each new morning with its light, For rest

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For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.

In every work of genius, we recognize our own rej

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In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary

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Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can

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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best

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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

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We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance

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Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds.

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not

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I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we hav

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The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

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