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The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

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A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

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There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics for then we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

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God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

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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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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

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Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it--else it is none.

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We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gate...more

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Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

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The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

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Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awo...more

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Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

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When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope t...more

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A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of...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