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"A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime."
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"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Genius: the superhuman in man."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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"I will praise any man that will praise me."
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"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."
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"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
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"Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so."
Life
"Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant."
Experience
"The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led."
Imagination
"Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence."
Intelligence
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night."
Dream
"I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago."
Faith
"I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity."
Cause
"It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial."
Nature
"I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it."
Friendship
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary."
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