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Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.


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There's time enough, but none to spare.



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Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.



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Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.



As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.

As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.



Race prejudice is the devil unchained.

Race prejudice is the devil unchained.



We sometimes underestimate the influence of little things

We sometimes underestimate the influence of little things



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We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings.



I think I must write a book. It has been my cherished dream and I feel an influence that I cannot resist calling me to the task.

I think I must write a book. It has been my cherished dream and I feel an influence that I cannot resist calling me to the task.



We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of our creation.

We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of our creation.



The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.





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