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" Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion. "

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" He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars. "

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" That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians. "

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" To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour. "

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" Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. "

" Opposition is true friendship. "

True Friendship

" If a thing loves, it is infinite. "

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