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Sin is a gravitation.

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He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most b...more

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

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Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that ...more

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in...more

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

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More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

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No one is a good historian of the patent, visible, striking, and public life of peoples, if he is not, at the same time, in a certain measure, the his...more

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

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Make thought a whirlwind.

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As long as ignorance and misery exist in the world, books like the one you are about to read are, perhaps, not entirely useless

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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

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The sole social evil is darkness; humanity is identity, for all men are made of the same clay.

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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.