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There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.

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Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

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A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

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Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

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"We have not two hearts - one for the animals, and the other for man... In the cruelty toward the former and the cruelty toward the latter, there is no other difference than in the victim."

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I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.

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How glorious it is -- and also how painful -- to be an exception.

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Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

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We'll talk without listening to each other that is the best way to get along.

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Science says 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well.

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When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid-in which case all comment is superfluous-or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.

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The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.

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Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

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Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

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We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.

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The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.

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Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

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A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.

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