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I cut a hole in my heart and wrote with the blood.

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These are facts which no casuistry can explain away.

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No vehement error can exist in this world with impunity...

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As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

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We call heaven our home, as the best name we know to give it.

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To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

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The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.

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The superstitions of science scoff at the superstitions of faith.

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There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.

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The necessitarian falls back upon the experienced reality of facts.

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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

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We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.

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To be happy is not the purpose for which you are placed in this world.

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Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.

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Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.

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Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.

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We have to consider the million, not the units; the average, not the exceptions.

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Unfortunately, the average of one generation need not be the average of the next.

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

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Large forms resolve themselves into parts, down so far as we can see into infinity.

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My friends at Rhodes made me so. I cost as much as sixteen gold gods of average size.

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The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

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Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous.

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Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.

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To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.

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Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.

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Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

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Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.

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Change is strong, but habit is strong too; and you cannot change the old for new, like a garment.

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I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.

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