"No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad."

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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

Albert Schweitzer, German Theologian

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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."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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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."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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"The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled."

Denis Diderot, French Editor

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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."

Denis Diderot, French Editor

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"The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then."

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"The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity."

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"Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind."

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"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time."

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"Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere."

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"No violent extreme endures."

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"Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together."

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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

"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."

"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

"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."

"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

"The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled."

"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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"All work is seed sown. It grows and spreads and sows itself anew."

"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."

"Clever men are good, but they are not the best."

"The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then."

"The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity."

"Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind."

"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time."

"Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere."

"No violent extreme endures."

"Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together."