When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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