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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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"Let no such man be trusted."
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"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."
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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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"A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good."
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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."
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"Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all."
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"What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?"
Fire
"A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love."
Love
"Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is."
Life
"I was so astonished that another had penetrated so deeply into the secrets of my soul, and that he knew what I did not know myself, that when I recovered from it he had already been long upon the street."
Soul
"The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up."
Love
"Thus one memory follows another until the waves dash together over our heads, and a deep sigh swells the breast, which warns us that we have forgotten to breathe in the midst of these pure thoughts."
Thought
"While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change."
Change
"Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!"
Family
"I was shortly again at the castle, and the Princess gave me her hand to kiss and then brought her children, the young princes and princesses, and we played together, as if we had known each other for years."
Love
"That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in the soul a divine home sickness, which never again ceases."
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