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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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"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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"Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."
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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
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"The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled."
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"One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures."
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"My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle."
Religion
"The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread."
Beauty
"Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks."
People
"There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him."
God
"The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack."
Spiritual
"I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves."
Travel
"Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man."
Psychology
"Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering."
Humor
"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot."
Nothing
"The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up."
Man
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