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Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.
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If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.
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They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall have small troubles, but they shall seem to them great.
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Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
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The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
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Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
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We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor calls the tune.
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The great discovery of the nineteenth century, that we are of one blood with the lower animals, has created new ethical obligations which have not yet penetrated the public conscience. The clerical profession has been lamentably remiss in preaching this obvious duty.
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We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
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There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.
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The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
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Take away fear, and the battle of Freedom is half won.
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To marry is to get a binocular view of life.
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The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.
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Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.
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Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place.
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Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.
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Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.
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The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
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A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.
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