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“We doubt not the destiny of our country that she is to accomplish great things for human nature, and be the mother of a nobler race than the world has yet known. But she has been so false to the scheme made out at her nativity, that it is now hard to say which way that destiny points.”

World Way Humans Has Beens Made Country Hard Mother Race Known Destiny Doubt Human Nature Accomplish Great Things Our Country Schemes Nativity

Book:Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke

Source: Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke

“Every man who accomplishes things sees first in his mind what he wishes to do. He puts away all doubt. It makes no difference how small or how large the thing you want to do may be; if you have an unlimited confidence in your ability to do it, you will do”

Ifs Men Want Mind Firsts May Wish Differences Ability Doubt Achievement Accomplish Every Man Unlimited

Book:Unity [devoted to Practical Christianity]

Source: Unity [devoted to Practical Christianity]

“The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected. Its evil effects must be plain enough to everyone. All it accomplishes is (a) to throw a veil of sanctity about ideas that violate every intellectual decency, and (b) to make every theologian a sort of chartered libertine. No doubt it is mainly to blame for the appalling slowness with which really sound notions make their way in the world.”

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy