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Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force.
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The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.
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Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
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When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
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Kind words produce their images on men's souls.
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How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.
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Je ne crois que les histoires dont les te moins se feraient e gorger. I only believe in histories told by witnesses who would have had their throats slit.
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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That dog is mine said those poor children; that place in the sun is mine; such is the beginning and type of usurpation throughout the earth. [Fr., Ce chien est a moi, disaient ces pauvres enfants; c'est la ma place au soleil. Voila le commencement et l'image de l'usurpation de toute la terre.]
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The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires.
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There is a lot of difference between tempting and leading into error. God tempts but does not lead into error. To tempt is to provide opportunities for us to do certain things if we do not love God, but putting us under no necessity to do so. To lead into error is to compel a man necessarily to conclude and follow a falsehood.
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All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.
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Since [man] is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in an impenetrable secret; he is equally incapable of seeing the nothing from which he was made, and the infinite in which he is swallowed up.
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Why God has instituted Prayer:— To communicate to his creatures the dignity of causation.
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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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Il y a deux sortes d'esprits, l'un ge ome trique, et l'autre que l'on peut appeler de finesse. Le premier a des vues lentes, dures et inflexibles; mais le dernier a une souplesse de pense e. There are two kinds of mind, one mathematical, the other what one might call the intuitive. The first takes a slow, firm, inflexible view, but the latter has flexibility of thought.
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The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.
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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.
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It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.
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Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
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Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
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To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse.
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Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.
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You gave me health that I might serve you; and so often I failed to use my good health in your service. Now you send me sickness in order to correct me Grant that, having ignored the things of spirit when my body was vigorous, I may now enjoy spiritual sweetness while my body groans with pain.
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