We must be our own before we can be another's.
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A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.
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Nature is too thin a screen the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere.
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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.
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I do not hesitate to read. . . all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable --any real insight or broad human sentiment.
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