If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them.
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A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would run.
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A characteristic thing about the aspiring immigrant is the fact that he is not content to progress alone. Solitary success is imperfect success in his eyes. He must take his family with him as he rises.
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The Gentiles used to wonder at us because we cared so much about religious things about food and Sabbath and teaching the children Hebrew.
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We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful.
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