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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

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The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

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A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.

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Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

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No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

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A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

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When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

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A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

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Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

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Man is a piece of the universe made alive.

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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

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A man in debt is so far a slave.

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The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.

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In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Nature says, -- he is my creature, and maugre all his impert...more

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Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth. In like man...more