"People still have existential anxiety. It just may not be expressed in Hebraic idiom."
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"My performances may have elements that some may find entertaining, but that's not my main purpose."
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"Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it."
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"Divine Scripture is wont to frame, as it were, allurements for children from the things which are found in the creature; whereby, according to their measure, and as it were by steps, the affections of the weak may be moved to seek those things that are above, and to leave those things that are below. But the same Scripture rarely employs those things which are spoken properly of God, and are not found in any creature; as, for instance, that which was said to Moses, I am that I am; and, I Am has sent me to you.""
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"Every good and true Christian should understand that wherever he may find the truth it is his Lord's."
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"Now, may our God be our hope. He Who made all things is better than all things. He Who made all beautiful things is more beautiful than all of them. He Who made all mighty things is more mighty than all of them. He Who made all great things is greater than all of them. Learn to love the Creator in His creature, and the maker in what He has made."
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"He alone may chastise who loves."
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"May the peace of God be with you," she says, her voice low, "even in the midst of trouble." "Why would it?" I say softly, so no one else can hear. "After all I've done..." "It isn't about you," she says. "It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift."
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"Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers."
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"Our unalterable resolution would be to be free. They have attempted to subdue us by force, but God be praised! in vain. Their arts may be more dangerous then their arms. Let us then renounce all treaty with them upon any score but that of total separation, and under God trust our cause to our swords."
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"You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself."
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"The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away."
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"There is a value in taking a stand whether or not anybody may be noticing it, and whether or not it is a risky thing to do."
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"Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse."
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"Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums."
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"Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them."
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"What Homo sapien imagines, he may slowly convert himself to."
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"True happiness is not found in any other reward than that of being united with God. If I seek some other reward besides God Himself, I may get my reward but I cannot be happy."
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"If you are animated by right principles, and are fully awakened to the true dignity of life, the subject of amusements may be left to settle itself."
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"He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct."
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