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" If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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" Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it. "

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