The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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We boast our emancipation from many superstitions but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.
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What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good.
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A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character.
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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
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You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.
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