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The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.
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His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed.
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The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being.
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The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.
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Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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A man may be a fine genius, and yet understand nothing of an art which he has not studied.
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It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape.
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That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.
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The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.
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My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo
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God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.
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God put in man thought; society, action; Nature, revery.
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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 not bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.
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It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.
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Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect.
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God became a man, granted. The devil became a woman.
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During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.
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Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.
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It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.
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A faith is a necessity to man. Woe to him who believes nothing.
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The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.
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God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.
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And, moreover, when it happens that both are sincere and good, nothing will mix and amalgamate more easily than an old priest and an old soldier. In reality, they are the same kind of man. One has devoted himself to country upon earth, the other to his country in heaven; there is no other difference.
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Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time; we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent; we must draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand. The Wise man is he who knows when and how to stop.
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
John Betjeman
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Born:
February 26, 1802
Died:
May 22, 1885
(aged 83)
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