"A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit."
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"He who despairs is wrong."
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"Progress is the stride of God."
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"I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary."
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"Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession."
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"God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me."
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"Art moves. Hence its civilizing power."
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"The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man."
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"I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls."
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"Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood."
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"Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by the fall of grains of sand?"
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"Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet."
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"It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like."
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"What is fright by night is curiosity by day."
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"Right is right only when entire."
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"The true artist can only labor con amore."
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"Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on Earth, in the fate assigned to us. We come of the same void, inhabit the same flesh, are dissolved in the same ashes. But ignorance infecting the human substance turns it black, and that incurable blackness, gaining possession of the soul, becomes Evil."
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"Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin."
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"Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns."
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"Progress is not accomplished in one stage."
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