our deficiencies is likewise that of our enthusiasm. The enthusiastic principle, "Love your enemies," and to be invented by the Jews, the greatest haters that ever existed; and the most sublime glorification of chastity was written by men who, in their youth, had led dissolute and licentious lives.
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Clean hands and clean walls.—Do not paint the likenesses of either God or the devil on your walls—i.e., Do not talk of either God or the devil—for in so doing you will spoil your walls as well as your surroundings.
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Probable and improbable.—A woman secretly loved a man and raised him high above herself, saying a hundred of times in her heart of hearts, "If such a man were to love me, I should deem it a condescension which would make me grovel in the dust."—And the man entertained the same feelings for the woman, and in the inmost recesses of his heart he fostered the very same thought. When, at last, their tongues were loosened and they had told each other all the secret and inmost thoughts of their hearts, a deep and thoughtful silence ensued. Then the woman began in a chilled voice, “It is as clear as day, we are neither of us what we have loved. If you are such and no other than you say, it is in win that I have humbled myself and loved
