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As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.

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All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

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Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

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Nature has always had more force than education.

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By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

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Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

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We are rarely proud when we are alone.

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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

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The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

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Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

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Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

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Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

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All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.

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The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

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Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

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Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

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The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

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