It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.
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Smelling isn't everything said the Elephant. Why, said the Bulldog, if a fellow can't trust his nose, what is he to trust Well, his brains perhaps, she replied mildly.
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If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerablethink of it as a place for correction and it's not so bad. Imagine a set of people all living in the samebuilding. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is a prison. Those who think it a hotel might regard it as quite intolerable, and those who thought it was a prison might decide that it wasreally surprisingly comfortable. So that what seems the ugly doctrine is one that comforts and strengthens you in the end. The people who try to hold an optimistic view of this world would becomepessimists the people who hold a pretty stern view of it become optimistic
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God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.
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I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me.
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True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.
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