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"To be thoroughly conversant with Man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair."
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"The Bible warns [parents] against extremes in dealing with our adult children. It tells us to avoid trying to control [them] once they become adults. When children become independent, a major transition takes place: They are no longer under our authority."
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"This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge, and the rest is construction. (...) Forever I shall be a stranger to myself."
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"I am engaged in spiritual warfare every day. I must never let down my guard-I must keep armed."
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"Who gave fire permission to burn?"
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"...because wherever else the future leads, it leads ultimately to death, the end that is present in my beginning and in yours."
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"Why is it that the cross has become the symbol of Christianity? It is because at the cross Jesus purchased our redemptionand provided a righteousness which we could not ourselves earn."
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"Do not become more useful than God."
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"Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be."
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"Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil."
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"Some only follow the holy man while others only follow the warlord. But the truth is, both sides are within all of us, and if people could only see that, they wouldn't have to wear masks, or pretend to be holy like a holy man, or pretend that nothing can hurt them like a warlord. They could just be themselves, unjudged."
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"I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it."
Friendship
"But, for myself, the Earth's records had taught me to look for widest ruin as the price of highest civilization."
Philosophy
"I have no words - alas! - to tellThe loveliness of loving well!"
Romance
"Horrors of a nature most stern and most appalling would too frequently obtrude themselves upon my mind, and shake the innermost depths of my soul with the bare supposition of their possibility."
Emotion
"This apartment, which you no doubt profanely suppose to be the shop of Will Wimble the undertaker --a man whom we know not, and whose plebeian appellation has never before this night thwarted our royal ears --this apartment, I say, is the Dais-Chamber of our Palace, devoted to the councils of our kingdom, and to other sacred and lofty purposes."
Governance
"Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence" whether much that is glorious" whether all that is profound" does not spring from disease of thought" from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect."
Philosophy
"With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion."
Poetry
"The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess, but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind."
Education
"In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember."
Mind
"I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom."
Psychology
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