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"Unfortunately, I was not wise enough to listen to her advice, and hastily married. In a few weeks, I had occasion to repent of the step I had taken, as the report proved true - a report which I thought justified, and indeed required, our separation."
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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."
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"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."
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"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."
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"Last season when things weren't working out, I thought we needed a different voice around the place."
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"But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it."
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"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them."
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"Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal."
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"Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes."
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"Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory."
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"What I think is a different matter. Maybe I think some rather curious things-but until thinking's got you somewhere it's no use talking about it."
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"Unfortunately, I was not wise enough to listen to her advice, and hastily married. In a few weeks, I had occasion to repent of the step I had taken, as the report proved true - a report which I thought justified, and indeed required, our separation."
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"My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life."
Life
"The manufacture of wax candles was another important branch of business in the nunnery."
Business
"I was born at St. John's, where they lived for a short time."
Time
"Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging to the Convent, which was used on such occasions; and placed not far from the altar in the chapel, in the view of a number of spectators who had assembled, perhaps about forty."
Ceremony
"I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It is one of the great points to which our attention was constantly directed."
Impression
"She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the convent; but they were always baptized and immediately strangled!"
Feelings
"A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as they are sometimes called."
Acquaintance
"Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two."
Order
"Some of the priests from the Seminary were in the nunnery every day and night, and often several at a time."
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