"It is often our best friends who throw us down."
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"To rise at six, to dine at ten, To sup at six, to sleep at ten, Makes a man live for ten times ten."
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"Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul."
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"The flesh is the upper surface of the unknown."
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"Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad."
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"He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs."
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"It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she."
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"The wind of revolutions is not tractable."
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"The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered an illness with its own doctors to replace your judges and its hospitals to replace your prisons. Liberty shall be equated with health. Ointments and oil shall be applied to limbs that were once shackled and branded. Infirmities that once were scourged with anger shall now be bathed with love. The cross in place of the gallows: sublime and yet so simple."
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"A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea."
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"Despotism is a long crime."
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"I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God."
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"To love is the half of to believe."
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"I will be Chateaubriand or nothing."
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"Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier."
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"where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice?"
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"What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do."
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"He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue."
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"A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence."
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"No one can keep a secret better than a child."
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