It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.
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You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.Lydia M. Child
That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.
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That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly.
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Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.
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But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
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