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" We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting. "

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

" If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. "

" Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world. "

" The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever. "

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

" Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him. "

" All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. "

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" People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others. "

" It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory. "

" Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. "

" Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back. "

" I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute. "

" Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. "

" Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair. "

" I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. "

" Love has reasons which reason cannot understand. "

" Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. "

" The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. "

" It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false. "

" Vanity is but the surface. "

" Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science. "

" Men blaspheme what they do not know. "

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

" The gospel to me is simply irresistible. "

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" Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God. "

" The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice. "