"How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare."

Man, Men, Labor, Salvation

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"How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare."

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"From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war."

Margot Asquith, English Author

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"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"The right man is the one who seizes the moment."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls."

Adlai E. Stevenson, American Politician

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"If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress."

Marcel Proust, French Author

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"Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'"

Graham Swift, British Author

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"To understand a man, you must know his memories. The same is true of a nation."

Anthony Quayle, English Actor

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"Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts."

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"Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many."

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"From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war."

"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."

"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long."

"The right man is the one who seizes the moment."

"Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition."

"There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls."

"If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms."

"As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress."

"Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'"

"To understand a man, you must know his memories. The same is true of a nation."

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"Desire is the very essence of man."

"True virtue is life under the direction of reason."

"Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature."

"Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts."

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"Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived."

"Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many."