I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.
From Julia Ward Howe
Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.
The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.
God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.
I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.
When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind. Thank God that even this weary nine months shall come to an end and leave me in possession of my own body and my own soul.
Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.
The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community.
Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.
Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.
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