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/ page 1017 of 1205 /The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the 'I,' under another form, continues the task of existence.
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Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
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God is dead!
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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.
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Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
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If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
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Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
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We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.
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Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.
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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
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Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
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We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
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It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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Ability is sexless.
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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
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Calculation never made a hero.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
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