We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

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The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.

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The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.

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Love is not a union merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits.

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No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.

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Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

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There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

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To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.

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Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.

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Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

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