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Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system!

— Mary Augusta Ward Robert Elsmere (1888)

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There is nothing more startling in human relations than the strong emotions of weak people.

The History of David Grieve (1891)

Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

Robert Elsmere (1888)

All things change,—creeds and philosophies and outward systems,—but God remains!

Robert Elsmere (1888)

But the mind travels far—and mysteriously—in sleep.

A Writer's Recollections (1918)

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

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