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What is the use of vows? They are not what binds people. If you feel in a certain way about a thing, that binds you to it; if you don't feel that way, nothing else can bind you.
have not forgotten what you said to me that night; I shall never forget it. But I must go my way and follow the light that I see.
The other voice, a man's, was remarkably soft and musical; but its sweetness of tone was marred by a peculiar, purring drawl, perhaps mere affectation, more probably the result of a habitual effort to conquer some impediment of speech, but in any case very unpleasant.
They think a knife can settle all the world's difficulties; and that's a mistake. It can settle a good many, but not all. Do you honestly believe that it settles any? He looked at her in surprise. Of course, she went on, it eliminates, for the moment, the practical difficulty caused by the presence of a clever spy or objectionable official; but whether it does not create worse difficulties in place of the one removed is another question. It seems to me like the parable of the swept and garnished house and the seven devils. Every assassination only makes the police more vicious and the
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what we really need to reform is the relation between man and man,
The disease itself is what is called a religious attitude of mind. It is the morbid desire to set up a fetich and adore it, to fall down and worship something. It makes little difference whether the something be Jesus or Buddha or a tum-tum tree.
Would Your Eminence receive a man who is guilty of the death of his own son?
Oh, if he could but forgive!
Surely there was no other misery like this--to be willing to forgive, to long to forgive; and to know that it was hopeless--that he could not, dared not forgive.
Otherwise, though we are complete strangers to each other, I hope that you will do so, as a personal favour to me.
