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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.

Blaise Pascal

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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Extraordinary Greatness Ordinary Wisdom
Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
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Curiosity Pride Talk Vanity
Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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Happiness Human Quiet Silence
Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
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Greatness Small Suffering
All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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Inspirational Man Misery Peace
People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
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Attraction Belief People
If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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Inspirational Letter Writing
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of, We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.
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Heart Reason Truth
All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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Alone Feeling Let Go Reason
Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
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Greatness Misery Ourselves
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
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
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Inspirational Men Vision
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
I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
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Believe Gift Myself
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
Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
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Greatness Lying Man Power

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