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Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the…
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Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really…
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Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round to his…
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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
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To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they…
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Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex;…
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It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be…
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What is necessary is not to seek after some fantastic ideal, utterly unsuited to our real needs, but to discover the true…
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The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.
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Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions': a rebel. If enough people…
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Initiation means the Journey Inwards: nothing is changed or can be changed; but all is trulier understood with every step.
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What is the meaning of Initiation? It is the Path to the realisation of your Self as the sole, the supreme, the absolute…
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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler…
— Aristotle
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O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue…
— Teresa of Avila
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The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused…
— Conrad Black
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Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude…
— Lionel Blue
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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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May is a pious fraud of the almanac.
— James Russell Lowell
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We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked Him…
— Oswald Chambers
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I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation…
— Martin Chemnitz
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Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with…
— Oswald Chambers
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Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted…
— John F. Kerry
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Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary…
— Mark Twain
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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person…
— Thomas a Kempis
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