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If I were called upon to sumbolize God and man in the simplest form, I would draw a straight line and a circle; and of the line I would say "This is god, for he alone moves forever straightforward;" and of the circle, "This is man- such is his progress."
— Jul 30, 2016 07:56PM
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Joseph
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There was a peculiarity, however, which could not have failed the notice of a looker-on this night in Antioch. Nearly everybody wore the colors of one of other of the charioteers announced for the morrow's race... This was according to... a custom, by the way, worthy of study as a marvel of history, illustrative of the absurd yet appalling extremities to which men frequently suffer their follies to drag them.
— Aug 15, 2016 07:47PM

Joseph
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There is no wiser providence that our occupations, however rude or bloody, cannot wear us out morally; that such qualities as justice and mercy, if they really possess us, continue to live on under them, like flowers under the snow.
— Jul 31, 2016 07:02PM