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"Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed."
Fortitude
"Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act."
Experience
"Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale."
Resilience
"Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure."
Poetry
"Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man."
God
"If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act."
Poetry
"Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think."
Resilience
"The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me."
God
"I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word."
Sense
"Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions."
Perception
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"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."
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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."
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"Conscience is God present in man."
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"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another."
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"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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