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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.

Anatole France

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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Himself Kind Man
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Establishment Existence Man Nature
Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that is left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
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Death Endurance Nation Strength Survive
All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change Sadness
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Collection Goodness Walk
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man Truth
All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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Goodness Love Man Sin Writing
Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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Courage Divine Goodness Life Suffering Value Virtue
The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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Deep Man Stars
For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
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End Life People
We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Book Deep Devil God Religious Story Writing
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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Desire Forever Man Past Regret Young
We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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Deep Dreams One Liner
An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
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Commitment Difference Education Memories
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
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Book Library Myself People
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
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Equality Food Law Poor Rich
But I deny that He created the world; at the most He organised but an inferior part of it, and all that He touched bears the mark of His rough and unforeseeing touch.
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Himself Myself Touch World

The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.

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