"The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract."

-- Isaac D'Israeli

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“The truth about intimate relationships is that they can never be any better than our relationship with ourselves.”

Source : James Hollis (1993). “The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife”, p.47, Inner City Books
“And thou art terrible--the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier; And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine.”

Source : Fitz-Greene Halleck (1827). “Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems”, p.13
“Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.”
“Some want prayer in school, some want condoms. Printing prayers on condoms satisfies nobody.”
“Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.”
“Christ took our sins and the sins of the whole world as well as the Father's wrath on his shoulders, and he has drowned them both in himself so that we are thereby reconciled to God and become completely righteous.”
“I have the immense joy of being man, a member of a race in which God Himself became incarnate. As if the sorrows and stupidities of the human condition could overwhelm me, now that I realize what we all are. And if only everybody could realize this! But it cannot be explained. There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.”
“How do men feel whose whole lives (and many men's lives are) are lies, schemes, and subterfuges? What sort of company do they keep when they are alone? Daily in life I watch men whose every smile is an artifice, and every wink is an hypocrisy. Doth such a fellow where a mask in his own privacy, and to his own conscience?”

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