"Body cannot teach wisdom; God only."
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"The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin."
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"There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere."
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"It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all."
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"Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed."
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"Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail."
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"All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power."
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"In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep."
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"It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do."
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"Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind."
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"Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right."
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"The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart."
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"History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought."
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"Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect."
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"One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs."
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"We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents."
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"The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other."
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"It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion."
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"Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness;--to love Him in others' virtues."
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"Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams."
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