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My greatness does not extend to this shelf.

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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

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Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce; for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms.

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Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

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Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second

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Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.

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A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!

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Every man is a book in which God himself writes.

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A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

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We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.

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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

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Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.

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Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

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Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.

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The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.

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There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.

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God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery.

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Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?

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For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.

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