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"Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God."
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"We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things."

"Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything."

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"If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted."

"There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point."

"Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling."

"The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self."

"There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time."

"So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational."

"Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture."

"Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom."

"To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self."
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