The Christian religion, outwardly and even in intention humble, does, without meaning it, teach man to regard himself as the most important of all created things. Man surveys the starry heavens and hears with his ears of the plurality of worlds; yet his religion bids him believe that his alone out of these innumerable spheres is the object of his master's love and sacrifice.
OuidaIt is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.
OuidaPower is sweet, and when you are a little clerk you love its sweetness quite as much as if you were an emperor, and maybe you love it a good deal more.
OuidaI have met a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.
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