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"Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"No man may make another free."
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"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."
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"Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?"
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"In every author let us distinguish the man from his works."
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"We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have."
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"If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else."
Courage
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
Change
"Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope."
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"The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it."
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"Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it."
Faith
"Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another."
Age
"The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism."
God
"All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions."
Consequence
"Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love."
Love
"I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth."
Truth
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