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"Let us then take pleasure in dreaming for reasons of psychological curiosity and mental recreation; but let us never speak ill of thought, which is out strength and dignity. Let us begin as Orientals, and end as Westerns, for these are the two halves of wisdom" Dec 3, 1872

IF ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.

"In religious matters it is holiness which gives authority; it is love, or the power of devotion and sacrifice, which goes to the heart, which moves and persuades." (location 3456)