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" One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range. "

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" Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. "

Doing The Right Thing

" Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come. "

" Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful. "

" The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. "

" Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance. "

" Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night. "

" When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes. "

" Men become accustomed to poison by degrees. "

" I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt. "

" Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal. "

" As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled. "

" When liberty returns, I will return. "

" Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God. "

" I'm religiously opposed to religion. "

" The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness. "

" Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach. "

" It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her. "