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All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from…
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Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and…
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Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today,…
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Your corn is ripe today, mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both that I should labor with you today,…
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Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and…
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I do not have enough faith to believe there is no god.
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God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end.
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Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.
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The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence,…
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All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials…
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To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a…
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Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can…
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We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the…
— Victor Hugo
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Contemplation does not ignore the 'historical Gethsemane', does not ignore the mystery of evil, guilt and its bloody atonement. The happiness of…
— Josef Pieper
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Divine happiness, even the tiniest particle of a grain of it, never leaves one again; and when one attains to the essence…
— Anandamayi Ma
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Supreme happiness consists in self-content.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He…
— Alexandre Dumas
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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
— David Hume
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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
— Victor Hugo
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There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He…
— Alexandre Dumas
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Before examining this more carefully and investigating its consequences, I want to dwell for a moment in the contemplation of God, to…
— Rene Descartes
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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
— Alexandre Dumas
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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
— Victor Hugo
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Love shortens time, changes the hours. Love is invincible. Many waters cannot quench it nor the floods drown. The supreme happiness of…
— Orson Scott Card
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