"One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake."

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"One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake."

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"God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest."

Herodotus, Greek Historian

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"Truth is Mormonism. God is the author of it."

Joseph Smith, Jr., American Clergyman

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"Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion."

Albrecht Dürer, German Artist

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"Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity."

Jean Cocteau, French Director

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"It was necessary that the Devil should have a representation upon the earth as well as God."

Warren Jeffs, American Criminal

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"When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science."

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"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."

Light

"You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you."

Morality

"I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man."

Life

"Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit."

Time

"Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable."

Happiness

"It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook."

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"For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something of the sort, so that life would not pass by and retreat into eternity without a trace."

Philanthropy

"In short, the man displayed a constant and insurmountable impulse to wrap himself in a covering, to make himself, so to speak, a case which would isolate him and protect him from external influences. Reality irritated him, frightened him, kept him in continual agitation, and, perhaps to justify his timidity, his aversion for the actual, he always praised the past and what had never existed; and even the classical languages which he taught were in reality for him goloshes and umbrellas in which he sheltered himself from real life."

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