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"I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow?"
"At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God."
"There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance."
Explore more quotes by Frank Moore Colby
"A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought."
"We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way."
"The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art."
"If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage."
"One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal."
"Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love."
"Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?"
"Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them."
"That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind."
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