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The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it.
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The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.
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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.
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The world is the mirror of myself dying.
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The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition. (God doesn't make a cent on the deal.) The world goes on because a few men in every generation believe in it utterly, accept it unquestioningly; they underwrite it with their lives.
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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.
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The world knows nothing of its greatest men.
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The world loves a spice of wickedness.
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The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
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The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly, and there the greatest heroism has been secretly exercised.
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The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.
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Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of thy voice.
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Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
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Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
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Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
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There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
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There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.
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There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
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There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.
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There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart; never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; and never to tell that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening while you tell it.
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