"Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost."
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"That there should be some fire even after this life is not incredible, and it can be inquired into and either be discovered or left hidden whether some of the faithful may be saved, some more slowly and some more quickly in the greater or lesser degree in which they loved the good things that perish, through a certain purgatorial fire."
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"We all have our dreams. May we find them, and God have mercy on us when we do."
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"And who in time knows whither we may vent the treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores this gain of our best glories shall be sent, 't unknowing Nations with our stores? What worlds in the yet unformed Occident may come refined with the accents that are ours?"
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"For true worship, only God and the human soul are necessary. It does not depend upon times, or seasons, or occasions. Anywhere and at any time God and person in the bush may meet."
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"It may be true that there is no God here, but there must be one not far off, and at such a moment one feels His presence; which comes to the same as saying (and I readily give this sincere profession of faith): I believe in God, and that it is His wi"
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"As he that lives longest lives but a little while, every man may be certain that he has no time to waste. The duties of life are commensurate to its duration; and every day brings its task, which, if neglected, is doubled on the morrow."
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"Whatever may happen, every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it."
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"Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down."
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"No matter the circumstances that you may be going through, just push through it."
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"For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope."
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"Every poet, be his outward lot what it may, finds himself born in the midst of prose; h e has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal."
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"In matters of the intellect, do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable. That I take to be the agnostic faith, which if a man keep whole and undefiled, he shall not be ashamed to look the universe in the face, whatever the future may have in store for him."
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"A single zealot may commence prosecutor, and better men be his victims."
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"We do not pray for the sake of praying, but for the sake of being heard. We do not pray in order to listen to ourselves praying but in order that God may hear us and answer us. Also, we do not pray in order to receive just any answer: it must be God's answer."
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"The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest."
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"Everybody is given a Dream... you may have to work for it however."
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"The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious."
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"I like to avoid concessions to faint-heartedness. One can never tell where that road may lead one; one gives way first in words, and then little by little in substance too."
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"The book says we may be through with the past but the past ain't through with us."
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