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"The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the limitations of our own weakness and an invocation of all Good to enter and abide with us."
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"Communicate at all times with the Creator."

"The kingdom of God is a fragment of heaven."
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"He was unique to her among men because he's impressed her as being not her admirer her superior. In some mysterious way he was becoming a part of her conscience as one woman who's nature is an object of reverential belief may become a new conscience to a man."

"In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider, it is hard to find rules without exception."

"And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment."

"A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other."

"Life is measured by the rapidity of change the succession of influences that modify the being."

"The sense of security more frequently springs from habit than from conviction, and for this reason it oftensubsists after such a change in the conditions as might have been expected to suggest alarm. The lapse of time during which a given event has not happened, is, in this logic of habit, constantly alleged as a reason why the event should never happen, even when the lapse of time is precisely the added condition which makes the event imminent."

"I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to guarantee delightful stores which the broad leisure of marriage will reveal. But the door-sill of marriage once crossed, expectation is concentrated on the present. Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight-that, in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin."

"What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self."
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