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Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.
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She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
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Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
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Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.
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Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.
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Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.
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Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.
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Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: ''Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.''
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Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.
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Some people give themselves over to their most evil desires, and those people becomes evil. But in general, it's reductive to think of evil as something foreign and separate from the rest of us. Evil is part of everyone. We all have the capacity to commit evil acts.
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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.
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Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).
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Sorrow is the great idealizer.
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Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.
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Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects in the phenomenal world.
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Stop worrying - nobody gets out of this world alive.
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Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
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Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.
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