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"God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb."
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"God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind."
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"Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man."
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"Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity."
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"I wouldn't have dared ask God for all that He's given me. I couldn't have done it on my own. I thank God every day for what I have."
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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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"To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God."
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"We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's."
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"From that moment, I did not cease to pray to God that by his grace it might one day be permitted to me to learn Greek."
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"Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it."
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"I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding."
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"Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together."
Sin

"God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb."
God

"Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!"
Criticism

"When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains."
Heart

"But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it."
Writing

"The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it."
Knowledge

"I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me."
Family

"Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation."
Conversation

"Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason."
Passion

"Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not."
Wisdom
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