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"Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him."
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"If one does not interfere in the obtained worldly life, then worldly life will run straight forward & smoothly. But one keeps interfering in the obtained worldly life. From the moment he wakes up, he interferes. If there is no interference in the unfolding circumstances one has obtained, then God's control will prevail, but by interfering one takes over the control himself."

"A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match."

"I am clearly vulnerable on the question of socializing under circumstances not appropriate for a married man."

"Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it be remembered, that the Quakers will have had the merit of its abolition."

"Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him."

"Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him."

"Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts."

"Circumstances give in reality to every political principle, its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind."

"Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable."

"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance."
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"Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward."

"The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy."

"Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him."
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