"Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men."

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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."

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Albert Schweitzer, German Theologian

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Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"I teach that all men are mad."

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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."

"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."

"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

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"It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time."

"The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity."

"The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain."

"In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy."

"Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers."

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"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life."