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» Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary. You may argue against it but you should no more treat it with disrespect than a perfectly cultivated writer would treat (say) the Catholic Church or the Church of Luther no matter how much he disliked them.

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» Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

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» It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says ''there is no wisdom without leisure.''

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» A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.

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» I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.

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» Education is not the filling of the pail, but, the lighting of the fire.

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» Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O. When may it suffice?

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» The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.

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» Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

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» The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

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