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"The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive."
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Personal Development
"And there, right in the middle of it, I find 'Forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us.' There is no slightest suggestion that we are offered forgiveness on any other terms. It is made perfectly clear that if we do not forgive we shall not be forgiven."
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Personal Development
"The proper name for the thing is modesty; but as we live in an age of prejudice and must not call things by their right names, we will yield to a more modern nomenclature and call it dignity."
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Personal Development
"For when once people have begun to believe that prosperity is the reward of virtue, their next calamity is obvious. If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue. Men will leave off the heavy task of making good men successful. He will adopt the easier task of making out successful men good."
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Personal Development
"Honesty is not just keeping your ass away from people but also clean."
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Personal Development
"The only classification to be made out of humans should be based on character and nothing but the character."
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Personal Development
"Morality does not come from a book, it comes from the human mind."
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Personal Development
"Real wealth is not the weight of coins, it is the net value of your honesty."
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Personal Development
"The burden of a porter is temporary, but the burden of a crooked politician is permanent because his conscience always carry the enormous burden of his frauds!"
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Personal Development
"A true Christian does not judge whether a person is worthy of help, but only judges a need and how to best meet that need."
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"Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare."
Reading
"One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going."
Age
"Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room."
Peace
"Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy."
People
"A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual."
Writing
"Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance."
Philosophy
"If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others."
Christian
"Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets."
Man
"Every dogma has its day."
Politics
"The downtrodden are the great creators of slang."
Lifestyle
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