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/ page 360 of 1205 /My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
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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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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
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A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement - in a word, with more renunciation than you care for - and so you flee the contagion.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
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Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.
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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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To love another person is to see the face of God.
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Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
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To think of shadows is a serious thing.
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