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• The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than…
• Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.
• The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.
• I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker; for it was not on the door of heaven.
• The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be.
• In science its main worth is temporary, as a stepping-stone to something beyond. Even [Newton's] Principia ... is truly but the beginning…
• Seeking is not always the way to find.
• In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off…
• Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.
• I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that…
• We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.
• If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give…

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