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"In this book it is spoken of the Sephiroth and the Paths; of Spirits and Conjurations; of Gods, Spheres, Planes, and many other things which may or may not exist. It is immaterial whether these exist or not. By doing certain things certain results will follow; students are most earnestly warned against attributing objective reality or philosophic validity to any of them."
"We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise."
"A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the thinker."
"...remember that what has once been done may be done again."
"...for, however all other feelings may be withered in a woman's nature, there is always one bright smiling spot in the maternal breast, and that is where a dearly-beloved child is concerned."
"You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom."
"If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced, and almost any idea which jogs you out of your current abstractions may be better than nothing."
"Error itself may be happy chance."
"You may not divide the seamless coat of learning."
"The way in which the persecution of Galileo has been remembered is a tribute to the quiet commencement of the most intimate change in outlook which the human race had yet encountered. Since a babe was born in a manger, it may be doubted whether so great a thing has happened with so little stir"
"I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it."
"Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it."
"Solitude may rust your words."
"One may gain one truth at the expense of another."
"Though a revolution may call itself "national," it always marks the victory of a single party."
"Chicken may be eaten constantly without becoming nauseating."
"Let it be your business every day, in the secrecy of the inner chamber, to meet the holy God. You will be repaid for the trouble it may cost you. The reward will be sure and rich."
"I like to work when I'm not working - do something that may not be considered work, but to me it's work. Getting exercise by going to the grocery store."
"A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be."
"We don't know yet if it was the raw fish. We may never know the cause."
