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The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.

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Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.

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General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.

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I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.

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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

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I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental, but leave me alone, and I should relish every hour and what it brought me, the pot-luck of the day, as heartily as the oldest gossip in the bar-room.

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Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.

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Fate is unpenetrated causes.

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The eye obeys exactly the action of the mind.

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This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside.

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But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. Speak the truth, and all things alive orbrute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

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Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

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The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose. Foolish people ask you, when you have spoken what they do not wish to hear, 'How do you know it is truth, and not an error of your own?' We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.

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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

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Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce.

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The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.

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As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.

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When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and rustle of the corn.

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Let him be great, and love shall follow him.

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The first and last lesson of religion is, "The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal." It puts an affront upon nature.

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