Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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The chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a colour. Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.
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Talk about the pews and steeples; And the cash that goes therewith; But the souls of Christian peoples . . . Chuck it, Smith.
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It was one of those chilly and empty afternoons in early winter, when the daylight is silver rather than gold and pewter rather than silver.
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And goodness only knowses; The Noselessness of Man.
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