When faults lie thick and die, the crop of good deeds to follow will be the greater.

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A priest at ten thousand a year is a monument erected over the grave of Christianity.

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The cry of the child for bread reaches further into the universe than peans sung to kings.

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When Eve was created nature must have cried ‘no,’ for ever since woman has continued to repeat the word.

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The rich go about the world on stilts, lest the poor should touch the hems of their garments.  They are so so high in the air that they gather no perfume from the wild flowers blooming by the wayside.

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The hand of Justice has lost its thumb and forefinger.

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Vulgar speech is a drop of filth from a rotten heart.

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A fly never sees the window pane until his bruised nose bleeds.

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The greatest kindness is that which we are not compelled to remember.

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My aspirations are cut out with a broad sword.  My results with a pen knife.

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The mathemetician can measure a world, yet he cannot weigh the secret thing which stirs a poet’s heart.

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Man has waited for ages for heaven to help him.  Heaven has waited equally long for man to help himself.

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Slaves are bound with fetters of steel—­poor men with fetters of law.  One corrodes with age, the other is perpetually renewed.

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The devil fish of the sea claws his victim, then sinks to the bottom.  The devil fish of the land claws his, then rises to the top.

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Want issues from the womb of greed.

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Justice will be done when greed dies.

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Sympathy is the sheet-anchor of the Ship of Life.

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One tear is more potent for good than a thousand laws.

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Charity, though white of plumage, is born of black parents.

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The avenger strikes down one evil and creates a thousand.

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Universal love is, but another name for universal happiness.

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Life without hope is death without a grave wherein to find rest.