"It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels."

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"God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist."

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"O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet."

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"God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist."

"My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is."

"Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point."

"O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet."

"Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked."

"Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature."

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"We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain."

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"Grown men do not need leaders."

"The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest."

"You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last."

"It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot."

"The greatest men, you can quote for everything."

"But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men."

"No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit."

"There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men."

"The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less."

"Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit."