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It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.

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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

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For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

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Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.

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Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

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To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.

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The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

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By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

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To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

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The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

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Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

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Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

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The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

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The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

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Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

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Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

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If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.

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Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

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Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

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The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

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Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

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Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.

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The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

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One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

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The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

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The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

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The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.

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To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

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Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

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It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.

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It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

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Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

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Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.

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