"Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible."
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"The absolute things, the last things, the overlapping things, are the truly philosophic concerns; all superior minds feel seriously about them, and the mind with the shortest views is simply the mind of the more shallow man."
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"No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more."
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"We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs."
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"Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you."
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"None but himself can be his parallel."
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"Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races... very handy."
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"You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage."
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"The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt."
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"Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars."
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"Nature abhors annihilation."
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"To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say."
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"I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described."
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"he who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors"
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"You can only be you when you do your best. When you don't do your best you are denying yourself the right to be you. That's a seed that you should really nurture in your mind. You don't need knowledge or great philosophical concepts. You don't need the acceptance of others. You express your own divinity by being alive and by loving yourself and others."
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"The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it."
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"Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it."
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"The stream of thinking has enormous momentum that can easily drag you along with it. Every thought pretends that it matters so much."
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"Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another."
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"I shall assume that your silence gives consent."
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