A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops.
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Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
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Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.
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If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep.
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Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.
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