If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.
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Let mystery have its place in you do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring ...
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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
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Order is a great person's need and their true well being.
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