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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

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A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

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The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that if you let it alone it will let you alone.

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The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

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To Be is to live with God.

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There is a crack in everything God has made.

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All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

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To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates o...more

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I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know ...more

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Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

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God enters by a private door into every individual.

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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

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None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed. Ah me! no man goeth alone. All men go in flocks to this saint or t...more

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Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of a...more

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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.