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I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.

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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

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Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.

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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

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To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.

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Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.

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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

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Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.

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The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Poet

Born: December 4th, 1835

Died: June 18th, 1902

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