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conscience forbids, and God's law condenins, must be defied when we cannot get it revoked. It is the struggle of good against evil.

Storms in the atmosphere are not more necessary to the economy of our globe than storms of thought to human society.

The true protectors of society, those to whom it owes most, are those men with whose names history connects memories of conflicts, persecutions and martyrdoms. It is essentially in the vigor of its morality that the force of society lies. Anarchy has no recruits to hope for in the ranks of conscientious men. "Slaves of to-day will be rebels to-morrow."

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Struck in turn by a crowd of impressions that neutralize each other, we are captivated by none and fix to nothing.

Economy of time is the principal element of all great

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Christianity makes us think, not dream. To live with one's self is not necessarily to think. Exclusively contemplative lives may not be the most profound. To act is not essentially a getting out of self.

No place in the soul can remain vacant. On the throne left unoccupied by an angel, a demon, be sure of it, will soon take his seat.

Certainty is not evidence, but the condition of a subject. Evidence is in the idea or fact. Certainty is the repose of a mind that has ceased to doubt. Evidence, the character of a truth when presented to the mind. Facts are masters.

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All that men can do is to deny the truths of religion. They can never destroy them.

Mystery and underhand proceeding never characterized the friends of truth.

A good cause may be so badly managed as to tell in favor of a bad.

It is truth that limps, and error that has wings. Our children will know better than we what we really aimed at.

The fate of the state depends upon the condition of the family.

The most commonplace soul loves power, but a lofty soul will prefer influence.

The truth that grows in the individual conscience will grow also in the public conscience.

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Conviction is fortified and sanctified by what it costs.

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No sacred cause can thrive well without martyrs.

Men used to hide ideas, now ideas hide men.

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Holding back our opinion is sometimes as much a falsehood as an actual untruth.

Mrs. Mitford.

Who can estimate the extent and power of woman's influence.

It is easy to talk of elevating the masses, but it is a fearfully difficult thing to elevate a single human soul. Our repeated failures at social reorganization teach us to ponder the solemn fact of individual character, that wonderful multiplying mirror of the Divine image, which for ever refuses to be put out of sight; that winged steed which will none of your bit and bridle, and vindicates its celestial origin by slipping off to the stars just as you fancied it reconciled to that beautiful apparatus of habit upon which you had spent so much labor and thought.

Let us raise our own spiritual standard before we attempt to raise the masses, then go to work in earnest, and we should not have to exclaim so often, "Lost, strayed, or stolen, the pattern of a generous manhood."

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If there were no loose screws in the order of things, we should have no need of philanthropists; but screws are loose, he is wanted; but let it be understood and never smothered up out of respect for any person, that

the pumping of human tenderness into artificially cut reservoirs and channels, the systematizing of its doings, are full of peril. The love that is divine is like the wind, "you hear the sound thereof, but cannot tell whence it cometh or goeth."

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It is better to touch, if we jar, than always to shun each other.

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Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which society should alone be formed.

Emerson.

The soul is soonest satiated with what is untrue, and then disgust is proportioned to enthusiasm.

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I wish, leads to nothing. I will, is alone efficacious. Genius without will has created fewer marvels than will without genius.

Talent is the paper money of genius. Talent cannot replace instruction. Many distinguished for natural gifts have been wholly lost, while second-rate talent by labor and industry has arrived at results which seemed reserved for genius alone.

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One reason why we do not post all the letters we write is, that we sometimes find them too true. We feel a sort of shame that "Psyche, my soul, should so loosen her voice to strangers." What commotions would be

raised if ten thousand desks could be made to yield up their treasures in the shape of unsent letters. Poor, fast fading rose! what if you could read a somewhat faded epistle, of which the writer has at this moment a glimpse.

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Persons of marked individuality, "crooked sticks,' as some of us might be called, are not the easiest to bind up into faggots.

Hawthorne.

All men and women of originative minds of a high class are worth listening to on any subject.

People never get just the good they seek. If it come at all it is something else which they never dreamed of, and did not particularly want. Then again, we may be sure that our friends of to-day will not be our friends of a few years hence.

Hawthorne.

Intellectual activity is incompatible with a large amount of bodily exercise. The yeoman and the scholar, the man of finest moral culture, are two distinct individuals, and can never be merged into one.

Hawthorne.

Let us be patient, this grand old world is in its gocart. There is a hand which guides. Tennyson.

It is well not to rest in frames and feelings, not to let your moral status be at the mercy of the barometer. It may be safely asserted that our best moments, whether

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