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We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they…
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One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out…
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The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that…
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You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.
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A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He…
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Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration…
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If they embark on this course the difference between the old and the new education will be an important one. Where the…
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How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!
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Pleased be you, my Lord, with all your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, who is the day and through whom you give…
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There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. The dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps, even…
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Age cannot Love destroy, But perfidy can blast the flower, Even when in most unwary hour It blooms in Fancy's bower. Age…
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At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity…
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And amid all the splendours of the World, its vast halls and spaces, and its wheeling fires, Ilúvatar chose a place for…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Last comes the class of persons, of nervous organization and enfeebled vigour, whose sensual appetite craves highly seasoned dishes, men of a…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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