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An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times.

Having broken out of his own Spartanism, he

Los seres humanos tienen a veces más ponzoña que las serpientes.

Cuando un hombre dice que no quiere hablar de algo, suele significar generalmente que no puede pensar en nada más.

laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death,

... without money you cannot fight money.

tone. All right, she said, but how do I go about being a boy?

them, he said. The dust is warm, said Samuel. Now it goes this way. ‘And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.

wondered

A farmer cannot think too much evil of a good farmer.

Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is fenced, and the swimming brood climbs up only to fall back. Might it not be that in the dark pools of some men the evil grows strong enough to wriggle over the fence and swim free? Would not such a man be our monster, and are we not related to him in our hidden water? It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels

Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is fenced, and the swimming brood climbs up only to fall back. Might it not be that in the dark pools of some men the evil grows strong enough to wriggle over the fence and swim free? Would not such a man be our monster, and are we not related to him in our hidden water? It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them. Whatever

The honest preachers had energy and go. They fought the devil, no holds barred, boots and eye-gouging permitted. You might get the idea that they howled truth and beauty the way a seal bites out the National Anthem on a row of circus horns.

While the churches, bringing the sweet smell of piety for the soul, came in prancing and farting like brewery horses in bock-beer time, the sister evangelism, with release and joy for the body, crept in silently and grayly, with its head bowed and its face covered. You

En los asuntos humanos donde hay peligro y hay que andar con cuidado, un feliz final puede verse seriamente comprometido por la prisa. Muy a menudo los hombres tropiezan y caen a causa de excesiva precipitación. Para realizar como es debido cualquier acción difícil y sutil, es preciso considerar ante todo la finalidad a la cual se tiende, y luego, cuando esa finalidad ya aparece como deseable, entonces es preciso olvidarla por completo y concentrarse única y exclusivamente en los medios que conducen a ella. Gracias a este método, ni la prisa, ni el temor, o la ansiedad, pueden originar acciones erróneas. Muy pocas personas son capaces de comprender esto.

It is easy out of laziness, out of weakness, to throw oneself into the lap of deity, saying, ‘I couldn’t help it; the way was set.’ But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man.

Virtue and vice were warp and woof of our first consciousness, and they will be the fabric of our last, and this despite any changes we may impose on field and river and mountain, on economy and manners. There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or ill? Herodotus,

At such a time it seems natural and good to me to ask myself these questions. What do I believe in? What must I fight for and what must I fight against? Our

Azt mondják, tiszta vágás gyógyul be leghamarabb. Nincs szomorítóbb dolog a szememben, mint az olyan kapcsolat, amelyet nem tart össze más, csak a ragacs a postabélyeg hátán. Ha nem láthatod, nem hallhatod, nem érintheted meg a barátodat, legjobb, ha hagyod, menjen isten hírével.

A man can do a lot of damage in the church. When someone comes here, he's got his guard up. But in church a man's wide open.