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- We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
- No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
- Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
- Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
- There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
- It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
- The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
- The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
- There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.
- To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is…
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