Quote #9

' I'm a Nolan. I could dazzle you in dialect, because the words do not make the same sense to different men.'

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  1. 'You I admire as being more, -much more -a man, and more believer too, than half the canting orthodox.'
  2. 'Who said to me, a foetus in the womb, a puling babe, 'You have your life, but on the condition that you thus believe?' No one! Not even Go…
  3. 'To make that long, last donkey-ride between the pikeman and the stake, to hear the shouting and the chant of hypocrites, to be a spectacle…
  4. 'It costs so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the enlightenment, or the courage, to pay the price:. One has t…
  5. ' I wonder how it will read five hundred years from now? -To make a man confess a loving God you burn him!'
  6. 'Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual…
  7. 'O Mother of Christ, who saw what men could do to one who heard an alien music! Bend to me, be tender. I am blind and deaf and dumb. And ye…
  8. 'If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.'

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