"Great things are done when men and mountains meet."
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"General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer."
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"To generalize is to be an idiot."
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"I see through my eyes, not with them."
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"Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius."
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"The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does."
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"If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out."
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"He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter."
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"Why stand we here trembling around, calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells?"
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"Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained."
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"It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only."
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"A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees."
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"Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave."
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"What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!"
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"Knowledge is Life with wings"
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"When the doors of perception are cleansed, men will see things as they truly are, infinite."
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"Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern."
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"And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification"
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"Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps."
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"He who wants, but doesn't act, is a pest."
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