“ What a pity it is that there are so many words! Whenever one wants to say anything, three or four ways of saying it run into one's head together; and one can't tell which to choose. It is as troublesome and puzzling as choosing a ribbon... or a husband. ”
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“ They who boast of their tolerance merely give others leave to be as careless about religion as they are themselves; a walrus might as well pride itself on its endurance of cold. ”
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“ The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones. ”
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“ How few are our real wants, and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable. ”
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“ Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. ”
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“ Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; yet God has made them part of oak; in so doing He has given us a lesson not to deny the stout-heartedness within, because we see the lightsomeness without. ”
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“ They who boast of their tolerance merely give others leave to be as careless about religion as they are themselves; a walrus might as well pride itself on its endurance of cold. ”
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“ Never put too much confidence in such as put no confidence in others; a man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself; as to the pure, all things are pure. ”
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“ The business of philosophy is to circumnavigate human nature. ”
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“ What is snow? Is it that the angels are shedding their feathers on the earth; or is the sky showering its blossoms on the grave of the departed year? In it we see that if the earth is to be arrayed in this vesture of purity, her raiment must descend on her from above… ”
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“ The difference between those whom the world esteems as good and those whom it condemns as bad, is in many cases little else than that the former have been better sheltered from temptation. ”
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“ The difference between those whom the world esteems as good and those whom it condemns as bad, is in many cases little else than that the former have been better sheltered from temptation. ”
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“ What a pity it is that there are so many words! Whenever one wants to say anything, three or four ways of saying it run into one's head together; and one can't tell which to choose. It is as troublesome and puzzling as choosing a ribbon... or a husband. ”
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“ Never put too much confidence in such as put no confidence in others; a man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself; as to the pure, all things are pure. ”
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“ Never put too much confidence in such as put no confidence in others; a man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself; as to the pure, all things are pure. ”
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“ Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. ”
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“ Nobody who is afraid of laughing, and heartily too, at his friend can be said to have a true and thorough love for him. ”
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“ The praise of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be. ”
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“ Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; yet God has made them part of oak; in so doing He has given us a lesson not to deny the stout-heartedness within, because we see the lightsomeness without. ”
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“ This is the true spirit of insolent dogmatism: We have proved to the satisfaction of every honest man, that we are right, and that you are wrong; and therefore, if you are not convinced, it must be owing to your own perversity. When a man's shot is exhausted, he will try to terrify his adversary by firing off powder. ”
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“ A faith that sets bounds to itself, that will believe so much and no more, that will trust so far and no further, is none. ”
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“ A faith that sets bounds to itself, that will believe so much and no more, that will trust so far and no further, is none. ”
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“ They who boast of their tolerance merely give others leave to be as careless about religion as they are themselves; a walrus might as well pride itself on its endurance of cold. ”
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“ A faith that sets bounds to itself, that will believe so much and no more, that will trust so far and no further, is none. ”
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