"Is not light grander than fire? It is the same element in a state of purity."
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"The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none."
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"Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?"
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"Laughter means sympathy."
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"Lies exist only to be extinguished."
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"Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases."
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"The genuine essence of truth never dies."
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"Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther."
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"Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!"
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"Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics; let your brain rest, you wearied and worried people of business; let your limbs rest, ye children of toil!"
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"Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets."
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"No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!"
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"Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led."
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"Time has only a relative existence."
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"Time is the silent, never-resting thing ... rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim."
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"By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears."
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"This we take it is the grand characteristic of our age. By our skill in Mechanism, it has come to pass, that in the management ofexternal things we excel all other ages; while in whatever respects the pure moral nature, in true dignity of soul and character, we are perhaps inferior to most civilised ages."
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"There are depths in man that go to the lowest hell, and heights that reach the highest heaven, for are not both heaven and hell made out of him, everlasting miracle and mystery that he is."
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"Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film."
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"It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments."
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