Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
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Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
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Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labour of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.
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It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.
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A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.
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If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
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In nature there are neither rewards not punishments--there are consequences.
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I am inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart--the best brain.
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What light is to the eyes--what air is to the lungs--what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
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Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
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The triumph of justice is the only peace.
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Happiness is not a reward-it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment-it is a result.
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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
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Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
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Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe a dungeon.
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The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.
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The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
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The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.
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