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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."
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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."
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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."
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"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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"I teach that all men are mad."
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"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."
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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."
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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
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"It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly."
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"Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm."
Joy
"Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations."
Action
"A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward."
Time
"Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality."
Death
"Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence."
Change
"Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest."
Man
"Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life."
Life
"A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s."
Character
"There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know."
Joy
"There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go."
Joy
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