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| Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it |
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| It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. |
| Devil; Revenge |
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| It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well. |
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| It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine then out of a prig |
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| It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger |
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| It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands. |
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| It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas. |
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| It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. |
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| Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. |
| Appreciation; Knowledge |
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| Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude is, in one sense, overcome |
| Overcoming |
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| Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. |
| Life |
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| Love is only half the illusion; the lover, but not his love, is deceived. |
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| Love makes us poets, and the approach of death should makes us philosophers |
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| Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence |
| Potential |
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| Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions. |
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| Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion. |
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| Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any. |
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| Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous |
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