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The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life. Albert Schweitzer
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Rational thinking which is free from assumptions ends therefore in mysticism. To relate oneself in the spirit of reverence for life to the multiform manifestations of the will-to-live which together constitute the world is ethical mysticism. All profound world-view is mysticism, the essence of which is just this: that out of my unsophisticated and naïve existence in the world there comes, as a result of thought about self and the world, spiritual self-devotion to the mysterious infinite Will which is continuously manifested in the universe.
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Not less strong than the will to truth must be the will to sincerity. Only an age, which can show the courage of sincerity, can possess truth, which works as a spiritual force within it.
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Ethics are complete, profound and alive only when addressed to all living beings. Only then are we in spiritual connection with the world. Any philosophy not representing this, not based on the indefinite totality of life, is bound to disappear.
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Sincerity is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.
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Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.
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By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
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I always think that we live, spiritually, By what others have given us in the significant hours of our life. These significant hours do not announce themselves as coming, but arrive unexpected.
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My father read Dickens out loud. My mother would say 'We're going to the workhouse'. This to me was real. I was headed for the gruel. Simon Schama
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One of the most blissful joys of the English language is the fact that one of its greatest practitioners ever, one of the guys on the very top table of all, was a jokesmith. Though maybe it shouldn't be that big a surprise. Who else would be up there? Austen, of course, Dickens and Chaucer. The only one who couldn't make a joke to save his life would be Shakespeare. Douglas Adams
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I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself. Goldwin Smith
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Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first. George Saintsbury
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Dickens had more energy than anyone in the world, and he expected his sons to be like him, and they couldn't be. Claire Tomalin
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Bo just shot the dickens out of it.
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The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way, the reader has, in terms of their imagination, somewhere to go.
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After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters.
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Something went wrong with my right arm. I no longer could throw hard, and it hurt like the dickens every time I threw. Dazzy Vance