“Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.”
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Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.
Truth is in things, and not in words.
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.