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To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.

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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words with out a heart.

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If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.

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When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.

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Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.

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One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.

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There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.

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Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.

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He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

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He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.

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Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

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The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.

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Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.

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I didn't think; I experimented.

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One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

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The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.

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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

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It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

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