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Fear God, and take your own part.

— George Borrow The Romany Rye (1857)

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I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized people.

Lavengro (1851)

There's the wind on the heath, brother; if I could only feel that, I would gladly live for ever.

Lavengro (1851)

He is not deserving of the name of Englishman who speaketh against ale, that is, good ale.

Lavengro (1851)

I never saw such a place for merched anllad [wanton women] as Northampton.

Wild Wales (1862)

There is a peculiarity in the countenance, as everybody knows, which, though it cannot be described, is sure to betray the Englishman.

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When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

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Once you accept the existence of God — however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him — then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

Morris West The Clowns of God (1981)

God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

Rabindranath Tagore Fireflies (1928)

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