If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

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Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?

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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

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Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

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People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

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The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.

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I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.

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Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.

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We don't love qualities, we love persons sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

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