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"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."

"The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference."

"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course."
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"In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing."

"If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar."

"A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."

"From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery."

"Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance."

"Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it."
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