"It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer."
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"The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface."
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"The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest buzzing noise about him; it does not need the report of a cannon to disturb his thoughts. The creaking of a vane or a pully is quite enough. Do not wonder that he reasons ill just now; a fly is buzzing by his ear; it is quite enough to unfit him for giving good counsel."
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"Let no one say that I have said nothing new... the arrangement of the subject is new. When we play tennis, we both play with the same ball, but one of us places it better."
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"All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room."
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"[On vanity:] The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed."
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"Love has no age as it is always renewing itself."
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"Nothing is more dastardly than to act with bravado toward God."
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"Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common."
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"All who say the same things do not possess them in the same manner; and hence the incomparable author of the Art of Conversation pauses with so much care to make it understood that we must not judge of the capacity of a man by the excellence of a happy remark that we heard him make. Let us penetrate, says he, the mind from which it proceeds. It will oftenest be seen that he will be made to disavow it on the spot, and will be drawn very far from this better thought in which he does not believe, to plunge himself into another, quite base and ridiculous."
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"Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble."
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"Le silence est la plus grande perse cution: jamais les saints ne se sont tus. Silence is the greatest of all persecutions: no saint was ever silent."
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"God is, or He is not." But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here. There is an infinite chaos which separated us. A game is being played at the extremity of this infinite distance where heads or tails will turn up. What will you wager?"
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"I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute."
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"There are hardly any truths upon which we always remain agreed, and still fewer objects of pleasure which we do not change every hour, I do not know whether there is a means of giving fixed rules for adapting discourse to the inconstancy of our caprices."
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"Fuller believed human societies would soon rely mainly on renewable sources of energy, such as solar- and wind-derived electricity,. envisioned an age of "universal education and sustenance of all humanity". "The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.""
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"Continued eloquence is wearisome."
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"What part of us feels pleasure? Is it our hand, our arm, our flesh, or our blood? It must obviously be something immaterial."
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"We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people."
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"Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent."
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