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Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
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Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.
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Poverty breeds wealth; and wealth in its turn breeds poverty. The earth, to form the mould, is taken out of the ditch; and whatever may be the height of the one will be the depth of the other.
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Reviewers are forever telling authors they can't understand them. The author might often reply: Is that my fault?
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Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.
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Some men treat the God of their fathers as they treat their father's friend. They do not deny him; by no means: they only deny themselves to him, when he is good enough to call upon them.
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Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together.
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Song is the tone of feeling. If song, however, be the tone of feeling, what is beautiful singing? The balance of feeling, not the absence of it.
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The craving for sympathy is the common boundary-line between joy and sorrow.
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The first step to self-knowledge is self-distrust. Nor can we attain to any kind of knowledge, except by a like process.
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The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two.
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The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
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The king is the least independent man in his dominions; the beggar the most so.
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The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impression it receivest oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.
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The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth.
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The only way of setting the will free is to deliver it from wilfulness.
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The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
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There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.
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There's no sort o' mistake in little Bullet. He can pick up miles on his feet, and fling 'em behind him as fast as the next man's hoss, I don't care where he comes from. And he can keep at it as long as the sun can shine without resting.
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