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"Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside."
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"I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested--'But these impulses may be from below, not from above.' I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live them from the devil."

"That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased."

"Over the inter glaciers,I see the summer glow,And, through the wild-piled snowdrift,The warm rosebuds below."

"Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors and a misfit from the start."

"Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways."

"Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?"

"It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances."
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