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"When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind. Thank God that even this weary nine months shall come to an end and leave me in possession of my own body and my own soul."
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"The frozen ocean... of Boston life."
Life

"The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness."
Needs

"Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions."
Woman

"I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends."
Integrity

"Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion."
Religion

"Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy."
People

"I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past."
Happiness

"The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community."
Community

"I take refuge in my books."
Books

"Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession."
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"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God."
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"I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul."
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Personal Development

"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."
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Personal Development

"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."
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Personal Development

"Conscience is God present in man."
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Personal Development

"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another."
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Personal Development

"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."
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Personal Development

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."
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Personal Development

"Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid."
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Personal Development

"God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause."
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