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" Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion. "

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" Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted. "

" Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. "

" Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known. "

" Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree. "

" Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature. "

" Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established. "

" If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. "

" The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory. "

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" We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. "

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" In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious. "

" Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good. "

" Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. "

" When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before. "

" Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other. "

" Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. "

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" The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. "

" Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world. "

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" The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men. "

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