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All Quotes Collection
"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do."
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"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."
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"Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s."
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"Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?"
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"To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour."
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"To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour."
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"Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals."
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"Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire."
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"As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers."
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"Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction."
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"A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent."
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"Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence."
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"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."
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"Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow."
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"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite."
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"I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow."
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"He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star."
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"He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars."
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