We act as though comfort luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
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Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.
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If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, what people think of you and then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoil everything you touch you will make sin and misery for yourself out of everything God sends you you will be as wretched as you choose.
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Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.
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We ought to reverence books to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things the teacher of all truth.
Charles Kingsley
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