Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.Oscar Wilde
It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us. Our weakest motives were those of whose nature we were conscious. It often happened that when we thought we were experimenting on others we were really experimenting on ourselves.
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Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise
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To influence a person is to give him ones own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of some one elses music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.
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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
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