That in these times every serious person should not in his heart have felt some difliculty with the doctrines of the incarnation, I cannot helieve. We are not as we were. When Christianity was first published, the imagination of mankind presented the relation of heaven to earth very differently from what it does now.

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Human improvement is from within outward.

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

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As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

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Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

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Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.

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When a woman's heart is flowing over for the first time with deep and passionate love, she is all love. Every faculty of her soul rushes together in the intensity of the one feeling; thought, reflection, conscience, duty, the past, the future, they are names to her light as the breath which speaks them; her soul is full.

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The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

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We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.

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The trials of life will not wait for us. They come at their own time, not caring much to inquire how ready we may be to meet them.

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Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.

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Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

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Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live; yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith.

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Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

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I would sooner perish for ever than stoop down before a Being who may have power to crush me, but whom my heart forbids me to reverence.

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We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at all, or it is nothing.

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Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.

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Man is a real man, and can live and act manfully in this world, not in the strength of opinions, not according to what he thinks, but according to what he is .

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The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot be expected to be any more so.

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What is right or duty without power ? To tell a man it is his duty to submit his judgment to the judgment of the church, is like telling a wife it is her duty to love her husband a thing easy to say, but meaning simply nothing. Affection must be won, not commanded.

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