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 Nature is saturated with deity.  God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. It is with our passions as it is with fire and water - they are good servants, but bad masters. Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes. The time when, most of all, you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd. - Epicurus Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness. Houses are built to live in, and not to look on. Justice and judgment lie often a world apart. It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem. Granting that we are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense; for they, as it were, see that He is looking upon them, while others may go for days on end without even once recollecting that God sees them. There is a tide in the affairs of women Which, taken at the flood, leads - God knows where. Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddied? You are the one who must grow up. The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck. A precedent embalms a principle. New roads; new ruts. Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. Nothing is worth more than this day. O Lord, forgive what I have been, sanctify what I am, and order what I shall be. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. 
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