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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

— Haniel Long

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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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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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