Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.
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The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.
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Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.
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Yet none use their words more recklessly than the strong, who have not been sobered by the rebuffs and uncertainties of life.
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Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.
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To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.
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