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Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to create.
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I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.
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One should assiduously pursue perfection without ever claiming to attain it.
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Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the Soul,
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I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken in believing,…
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You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.
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Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are…
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As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the…
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I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity…
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All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all alike equally…
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You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect…
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You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself, provided you…
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Upon a life I did not live, upon a death I did not die; another's life, another's death, I stake my whole…
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True Godliness doesn't turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it, and excites their endeavors to…
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He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
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Sooner could a fish live upon a tree than the wicked in Paradise.
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Is beauty a reminder of something we once knew, with poetry one of its vehicles? Does it give us a brief vision…
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Man cannot live upon words, however he may try.
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There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.
— Thomas Paine
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Friendship needs to be rooted in respect, but love can live upon itself alone
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As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the…
— Nicolas Malebranche
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For true peace of mind we must acknowledge whatever fault we live upon, whatever time bomb ticks in our closet, and enjoy…
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A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God, and that the consequence is an inevitable doom. For a…
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For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
— Philip James Bailey
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