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Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven.
Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19 -
Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.
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Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, ''Now cut that out!'' That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!
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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.
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There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about phytoplankton. All these tiny mechanisms provide the preconditions of our planetary life. To say we do not care is to say in the most literal sense that ''we choose death.''
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Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.
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''I can forgive, but I cannot forget,'' is only another way of saying, ''I cannot forgive.''
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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?
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A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
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A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.
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A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman.
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A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.
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A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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