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"We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see."
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"I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing."

"'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth."

"The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler."

"To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do."

"You have to know yourself enough to be able to choose friends that you will be compatible with."

"For many years, I searched for this connection outside of myself but always to no avail. It was only when I turned inward did I find this power."

"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."

"We make such messes in this life, both accidently and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything any neater. It just masks what is below. It's only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are."

"The mind becomes much more beautiful, when man could see his own weaknesses."

"Be yourself, that is all there is."
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"If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever."

"That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man."

"A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself."

"All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind."

"From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God."

"The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense."

"The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it."
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