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/ page 779 of 1205 /No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
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Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
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He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.
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Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.
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The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
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It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
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If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
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I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
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To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
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Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
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The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
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The spiritual is the parent of the practical.
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No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
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