"I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication."
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"He claims he has never known fatigue while obeying the law, but when he does break it he feels a sense of guilt in discovering the slightest evidence of fatigue which tells him that he has broken it."
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"As Joel Goldsmith said, in the presence of the God realized, the laws of the material world do not apply. That's why people who live steadfastly at a place of God-consciousness can perform miracles. They can create. They can make virtually anything happen. From the space in-between, that last inch is the critical inch you have to take to reach that place. Every once in a while, I get to that place of God-consciousness, and miracles do happen."
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"You are not saintly (a good person) because an organization says so, but rather because you stay connected to the divinity of your origination. You are not intelligent because of a transcript; you are intelligence itself, which needs no external confirmation. You are not moral because you obey the laws; you are mortality itself because you are the same as what you came from."
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"He who makes his law a curse, by his own law shall surely die."
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"I would have touched it like a child But knew my finger could but have touched Cold stone and water. I grew wild, Even accusing heaven because It had set down among its laws: Nothing that we love over-much Is ponderable to our touch."
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"Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?"
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"Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results."
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"The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change."
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"If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn't seek to show that no crows are; it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white."
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"Life doesn't happen along interstates. It's against the law."
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"Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be?"
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"Help, master, help! here's a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill hardly come out."
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"I am a subject, And I challenge law. Attorneys are denied me, And therefore personally I lay my claim To my inheritance of free descent."
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"When law can do no right, Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong."
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"Faith, I have been a truant in the law And never yet could frame my will to it, And therefore frame the law unto my will."
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"That which I would discover The law of friendship bids me to conceal."
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"Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls; Conscience is but a work that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the strong in awe: Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law!"
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"In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs-in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed, the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time."
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"Even the most eminent persons are subject to the laws of gravity."
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