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"A man would die tonight of lying out on the marshes, I thought. And then I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pitty in all the glittering multitude."
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"I am not what you are. I am only what I can see. I am me."

"Your eyes have no power to see. They only create optical illusions. Only the mind can see it when it is ready to see it."

"Lack of money is no poverty."

"Ancient historians tell us that one of the symptoms of a declining civilization is a desexualization of the human race, with men becoming more effeminate and women becoming more masculine, not only in physical [appearance] but in their basic characters."

"Parenting is the most important responsibility most of us will ever face, and none of us does it perfectly."

"To injure, ignore, disrespect, and violate the innocence of a child are among the greatest evils known to man."

"I don't care if you love me or not, but I care that I love you without any thought."

"The evangelist cannot bring conviction of sin, righteousness, or judgment; that is the Spirit's work. They cannot convert anyone; that is the Spirit's work."

"Christianity is not a spectator sport, it's something in which we become totally involved."

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"It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by, and I know right well that any good that intermixed itself with my apprenticeship came of plain contented Joe, and not of restlessly aspiring discontented me."

"She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea."

"Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!"

"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."

"That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society."

"I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world."

"He had been for many years, a quiet silent man, associating but little with other men, and used to companionship with his own thoughts. He had never known before the strength of the want in his heart for the frequent recognition of a nod, a look, a word; or the immense amount of relief that had been poured into it by drops through such small means."

"Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine."

"Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy."
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