Miguel de Unamuno quote: "Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself"

For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. ...
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Feast of All Souls If you ask me how I believe in God, how God creates Himself in me, and reveals...
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Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how...
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When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid ...
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
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The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.
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We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate where...
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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes ...
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At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not ...
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When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid --...
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Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
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The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him ...
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Man dies of cold, not of darkness.
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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.
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Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
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To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
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There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is s...
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Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothe...
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Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how y...
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It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek so...
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A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
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If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, e...
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The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to f...
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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him ...
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There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is s...
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Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
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To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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It is sad not to be loved but it is much sadder not to be able to love
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A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
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Life is doubt, And faith without doubt is nothing but death
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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant
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No os quepais en el cerebro lo que os puede caber en el bolsillo. Y al contrario, ¡no os quepais en...
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To awaken the sleeping and rouse the loitering is a work of supreme mercy, and to seek the truth in ...
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For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. ...
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The vanity of the passing world and love are the two fundamental and heart-penetrating notes of true...
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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas
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Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.
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The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to f...
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Cásate con la mujer que te quiera, aunque no la quieras tú. Es mejor casarte para que le conquiste...
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¿Y qué es amor? ¿Quién definió el amor? Amor definido deja de serlo...
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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be
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What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
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And wherefore do you want to be immortal? you ask me, wherefore? Frankly, I do not understand the qu...
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If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, e...
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Hasta que se llora de veras no se sabe si se tiene o no alma.
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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or f...
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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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El que tiene fe en sí mismo no necesita que los demás crean en él.
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Consciousness is a disease
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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to...
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At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not ...
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Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in ...
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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.
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Life is doubt,
And faith without doubt is nothing but death.
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Because Augustus was not a hiker, but a walker of life
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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
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Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulen...
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There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humo...
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
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'Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
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To be prepared is half the victory.
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The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.
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Patience and shuffle the cards.
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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture ...
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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.
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The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays t...
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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.
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True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage lose...
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I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
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Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.
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There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other...
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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his bod...
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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death ...
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If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Te...
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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
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Jests that give pains are no jests.
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Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.
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The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revi...
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For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear,...
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A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.
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God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
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Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without governmen...
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Man appoints, and God disappoints.
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Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than hi...
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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than ju...
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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compar...
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He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
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Eat not garlic nor onions, lest they find out thy boorish origin by the smell; walk slowly and speak...
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Fair and softly goes far.
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A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
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Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this...
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Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep: it covers a man all over, thoughts a...
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Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
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Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
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One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.
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'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
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And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these boo...
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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
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Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.
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The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
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That which costs little is less valued.
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The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
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Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.
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He preaches well that lives well.
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My grandma (rest her soul) used to say, There were but two families in the world, have-much and have...
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Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd le...
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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
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There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrous...
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Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
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Miracle me no miracles.
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No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
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By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.
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A person dishonored is worst than dead.
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You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
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By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and natural...
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He had a face like a blessing.
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The eyes those silent tongues of love.
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Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum.
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To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than...
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Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
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'Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail o...
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Absence -- that common cure of love.
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Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
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Faint heart never won fair lady.
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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
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A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
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I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from ...
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The greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
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Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent...
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Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
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One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as g...
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No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
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Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
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Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.
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Absence, that common cure of love.
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Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.
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Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be! -...
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Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
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Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.
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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with anot...
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.
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Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal...
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Virtue is the truest nobility.
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It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
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When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
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Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.
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Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
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One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unre...
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From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
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Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
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For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, di...
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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging the...
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Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
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Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
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Tell me what company you keep and I'll tell you what you are.
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Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothe...
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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
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Facts are the enemy of truth.
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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does ab...
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Short sentences drawn from long experiences.
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Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
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Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long.
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Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by h...
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Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy tha...
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The most difficult character in comedy is that of a fool, and he must be no simpleton who plays the ...
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The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wis...
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Every man is the son of his own works.
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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.
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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another...
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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the oth...
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One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphab...
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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
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I've never worked with the Java community.
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I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your plat...
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Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and the goal of a good intention was never reached through ...
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Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself

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Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself

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