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" Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly. "

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" Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought. "

" Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. "

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" Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. "

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" Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh. "

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" Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great. "

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" There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height. "

" One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation. "

" The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live. "

" One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will. "

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" There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees. "