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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.

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We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born t...more

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Work banishes those three great evils boredom vice and poverty.

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It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

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Let us work without reasoning,' said Martin; 'it is the only way to make life endurable.

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Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

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The best is the enemy of good.

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But how conceive a God supremely good/ Who heaps his favours on the sons he loves,/ Yet scatters evil with as large a hand?[Written after an earthquak...more