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One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real…
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The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic…
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The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to…
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Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or…
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True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated…
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If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it…
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Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near…
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The fascinating necessarily tends to call a certain attention to itself; the interesting need not. An evening spent with a fascinating person…
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One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the…
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From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the…
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A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.
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Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.
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The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller,…
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I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.
— Oscar Wilde
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The God of the Puritans...was a monster too horrible to contemplate.
— John Burroughs
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Like the Puritans, live in terms of the settled judgement that the joy of heaven will make amends of any losses and…
— Joel Beeke
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The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No…
— H. L. Mencken
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Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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Underlying the preaching of the Puritans are three basic axioms: 1. The unique place of preaching is to convert, feed and sustain,…
— J I Packer
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By all means read the Puritans, they are worth more than all the modern stuff put together.
— Charles Spurgeon
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If we look back in history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find a few that have…
— Benjamin Franklin
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The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn't be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed…
— Gore Vidal
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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
— Wendell Phillips
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My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under…
— Garrison Keillor
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