We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
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. . . commerce dies the moment, and is sick in the degree in which men cannot trust each other.
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Many would like religion as a sort of lightning rod to their houses, to ward off, by and by, the bolts of divine wrath.
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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