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"Condemn me if you choose - I do that myself, - but condemn me, and not the path which I am following, and which I point out to those who ask me where, in my opinion, the path is."
"Death, a cause of terror to the sinner, is a blessed moment for him who has walked in the right path."
"The end he had been born to serve yet did not see had led him to escape by an unseen path and now it beckoned to him once more and a new adventure was about to be opened to him."
"Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage to them."
"I've got better things to do than to find my individuality in that particular area. But if it's important to me, I've got to seek my own path."
"I think Perry Ferrell put independent music on a very good path with Lollapalooza."
"She lived in fear of his shifting moods, his volatile temperament, his insistence on steering even mundane exchanges down a confrontational path that, on occasion, he would resolve with punches, slaps, kicks, and sometimes try to make amends for with polluted apologies, and sometimes not."
"Many are the fools who say that Jesus stood in His own path and opposed Himself; that He knew not His own mind, and in the absence of that knowledge confounded Himself."
"In my thought there is only one universal religion, whose varied paths are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being."
"If it was up to me, I’d choose the hard path with the easy ending, not the easy path with the hard end."
"Constantly to seek the purpose of life is one of the odd escapes of man. If he finds what he seeks it will not be worth that pebble on the path."
"The only way to follow your path is to take the lead."
"Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him."
"What is the path? There is no path. On into the unknown."
"And step by step, along the path of life, There's nothing true but Heaven."
"The best way to progress is the path of freedom."
"...we confidently say that it's not worth trying to reach any conclusions merely because we decide to stop halfway along the path that would lead us straight to them."
"Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth."
"Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path."
"The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road."
