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Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

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Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

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The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

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Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

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Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

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Habit is stronger than reason.

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The Bible is literature, not dogma.

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If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.

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Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

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Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

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The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

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Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

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When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

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It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

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The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

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Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

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A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

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