Everything that we think God has in his mind necessarily proceeds from our own mind; it is what we imagine to be in God's mind, and it is really difficult for human intelligence to guess at a divine intelligence. What we usually end up with by this sort of reasoning is to make God the color-sergeant of our army and to make Him as chauvinistic as ourselves.
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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
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Men never do evil so fully and so happily as when they do it for conscience's sake.
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Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.
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Yield to temptation; it may not pass your way again.
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