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"No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes."
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"How we choose to perceive affects how we partake of reality, narrowly or completely."

"We often focus on what is wrong and complain that nothing is beautiful."

"The mind can fool the heart, as the heart can fool the mind."

"People see what they expect to see."

"The devil was always in the detail. And here the detail was certainly devilish."

"I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colours and shades I knew existed."

"Life is an illusion which wisely prevents you from seeing yourself fully."

"When I deeply look at a pious, I see no affection but fear; and when I look at an atheist, I see no fear but conceit!"

"It is always easier to find fault and criticize than it is to find beauty and appreciation."

"Materialistic perception of life makes us spiritually shortsighted."
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"No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve."


"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."


"Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man, but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity."


"It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five."


"I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil."
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