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The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

Blaise Pascal

Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men’s souls, and a beautiful image it is.
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Beautiful Hurt Kindness Lips Nature
And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?
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Crime Destroy Peace Truth
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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Evil Inspirational Religious Sad
What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
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Difference God Himself Love
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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Heart Inspirational Life Love Reason
Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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Easy Evil Infinite
When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
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Logic Mathematics Right
Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
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Greatness Small Suffering
All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
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Men Trouble World
The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
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Affection Ocean Pebble
If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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Inspirational Letter Writing
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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Live Man Reason Suffering
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
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Existence Faith God Heart Reason
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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Business Men Passion Tolerance
Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.
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Darkness Death Men Vice Victory
All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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Alone Feeling Let Go Reason

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