"Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all."
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"It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else."
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"In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms"
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"The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed that the cause of most actions, good or bad, may be resolved into the love of ourselves; but the self-love of some men inclines them to please others, and the self-love of others is wholly employed in pleasing themselves. This makes the great distinction between virtue and vice."
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"In all assemblies, though you wedge them ever so close, we may observe this peculiar property, that over their heads there is room enough; but how to reach it is the difficult point. To this end the philosopher's way in all ages has been by erecting certain edifices in the air."
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"It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors."
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"A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience."
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"It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work."
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"We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality."
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"Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect."
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"And shade the violets, That they may bind the moss in leafy nets."
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"O, sorrow! Why dost borrow Heart's lightness from the merriment of May?"
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"We must always speak of the efficacy of the ministry in such a manner that the entire praise of the work may be reserved for God alone."
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"Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth."
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"The student of media soon comes to expect the New Media of any period whatever to be classed as 'pseudo' by those who acquired the patterns of earlier media, whatever they may happen to be."
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"The ones who count are those persons who - though they may be of little renown - respond to and are responsible for the continuation of the living spirit."
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"This is the risk: the primary word can only be spoken with the whole being. He who gives himself to it may withhold nothing of himself."
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"What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow."
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"Being by his faith replaced afresh in paradise and created anew, he (the believer)does not need works for his justification, but that he may not be idle, but that he may exercise his own body and preserve it. His works are to be done freely, with the sole object of pleasing God."
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"The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good."
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