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Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

— Charles Kingsley

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There is a great deal of human nature in man.

This is eternal life; a life of everlasting love, showing itself in everlasting good works; and whosoever lives that life, he lives the life of God, and hath eternal life.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;
Do noble things, not dream them, all day long:
And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever
One grand, sweet song.

Andromeda and Other Poems (1858)

May God keep our hearts pure from that selfishness which is the root of all sin.

I believe not only in "special providences," but in the whole universe as one infinite complexity of "special providences."

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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You can never plan the future by the past.

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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now does always last.

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