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they are running to religious meetings and thinking the meetings are going to do the work. But if these don’t bring you into closer contact with the Word of God, the whole impression will be gone in three months. The more you love the
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“We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.”
― Gaudy Night
― Gaudy Night
“What are you to do with the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?”
― Gaudy Night
― Gaudy Night
“It was after I first began to uplift my thoughts a bit that my cravings for junk food started to dissipate. I did not connect the two at that time. First, I simply noticed that I didn’t need to sleep so much. It took a while before I realized that in addition to my improved energy level, there was a direct correlation between chewing on mental garbage and putting garbage in my mouth.”
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“I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.”
― Gaudy Night
― Gaudy Night
“It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.”
― Nicomachean Ethics and Politics
― Nicomachean Ethics and Politics
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