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The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure.

— Haniel Long A Letter to St. Augustine after Re-Reading His Confessions (1950)

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Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.

A Letter to St. Augustine after Re-Reading His Confessions (1950)

I do not believe that we can stop perfecting new ways of dying until we have found new ways of living. Every new life-way ought to prevent a new death-way.

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A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.

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To strip a man of all loyalties but those to the state, makes him not only a worm but a monster, without a shred of humanity.

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Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby?

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