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"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men."

"My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em."

"I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all."

"All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be."

"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."
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"Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature."

"Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?"

"An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it."

"A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods."

"When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough."

"Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance."
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