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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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To Be is to live with God.

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I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know ...more

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To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

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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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God enters by a private door into every individual.

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

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Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to ...more

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Heartily know, when half-gods go, the gods arrive.

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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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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.