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The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.

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No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.

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I like people who can do things

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We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall; Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?

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It is defeat which educates us.

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

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Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark

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Nature ever faithful is To such as trust her faithfulness.

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For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.

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The time is coming when all men will see that the gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting, overpowering, excluding sanctity, buta sweet, natural goodness, a goodness like thine and mine, and that so invites thine and mine to be and to grow.

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All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

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Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

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Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.

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Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.

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The way to mend the bad world is to create the right world.

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There will always be in society certain persons who are mercuries of its approbation, and whose glance will at any time determinefor the curious their standing in the world. These are the chamberlains of the lesser gods. Accept their coldness as an omen of grace with the loftier deities, and allow them all their privilege.

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Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

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The most useful man in the most useful world, so long as only commodity was served, would remain unsatisfied. But, as fast as he sees beauty, life acquires a very high value.

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There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.

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The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.

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