For this is the only thing, if there be any, which could draw us the contrary way and attach us to life,--to be permitted to live with those who have the same principles as ourselves.
From his personal reflections, contemplating what truly binds one to life.
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For every judgment and movement and desire and aversion is within, and no evil ascends so high.
It is thy duty to leave another man's wrongful act there where it is (vii. 29; ix. 38).
How ridiculous and what a stranger he is who is surprised at anything which happens in life.
But to be strong enough both to bear the one and to be sober in the other is the mark of a man who has a perfect and invincible soul, such as he showed in the illness of Maximus.
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