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Every man is a book in which God himself writes.

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He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.

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The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.

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Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

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Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.

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Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.

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Joy is the reflex of terror.

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A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.

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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.

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Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

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Every idea must have a visible enfolding.

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What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.

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It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.

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To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

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We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and health shall be alike. We shall pour balm and oil where we formerly applied iron and fire; evil will be treated in charity, instead of in anger. This change will be simple and sublime.

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A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.

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Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.

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Algebra applies to the clouds.

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The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.

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