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"The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?"

"In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich."

"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."

"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One."

"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

"The verdict of the world is conclusive."

"My approach to my subjects was very simple. I never had them pose, we just talked about everything in the world."
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"The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one."

"Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them."

"I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians."

"That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise."

"The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny."

"What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'."
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