Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
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Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
When my love swears that she is made of truth, _x000D_ _x000D_ I do believe her, though I know she lies.
Good science is done by being curious in general, by asking questions all around, by acknowledging the likelihood of being wrong and taking this in good humor for granted, by having a deep fondness for nature, and by being made jumpy and nervous by ignorance.
Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.
No falsehood is so fatal as that which is made an article of faith.
Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a "form" of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.
Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.
In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.
Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions.
To see her is to love her,_x000D_ _x000D_ And love but her forever;_x000D_ _x000D_ For nature made her what she is,_x000D_ _x000D_ And never made anither!
From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.
Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
I saw full surely that ere God made us He loved us; which love was never slacked, nor ever shall be. And in this love He hath done all His works; and in this love He hath made all things profitable to us; and in this love our life is everlasting. In our making we had beginning; but the love wherein He made us was in Him from without beginning: in which love we have our beginning. And all this shall we see in God, without end.
And looking to the Heaven, that bends above you,_x000D_ _x000D_ How oft! I bless the Lot, that made me love you.
Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author, to correct, in a second edition, certain errors of the first.
I hold all knowledge that is concerned with things that actually exist - all that is commonly called Science - to be of very slight value compared to the knowledge which, like philosophy and mathematics, is concerned with ideal and eternal objects, and is freed from this miserable world which God has made.
Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?
I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers. It isn't just that I don't believe in God and, naturally, I hope that I'm right in my belief. It's that I hope there is no God! I don't want there to be a God; I don't want the universe to be like that.
I am as free as nature first made man,_x000D_ _x000D_ Ere the base laws of servitude began,_x000D_ _x000D_ When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Change is not made without inconvenience.
You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worlds Except the one in which you belong.
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