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Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.

Blaise Pascal

There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.
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Desire Enough Light See
In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
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Beautiful Difficult Hard Time Heart Time
Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
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Greatness Lying Man Power
If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
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Enough Love Yourself
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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Beyond Logic Men Reason
It’s not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It’s those who write the songs.
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Law Song Worth Writing
There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
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Creation God Man Spiritual
One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.
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Act Life Men Possible Spiritual Thinking
Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!
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Greatness Myself Power Yourself
Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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Happiness Human Quiet Silence
If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.
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Believe God Life Philosophy Spiritual
The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
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Affection Ocean Pebble
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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Different Faith Gift God Human
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
Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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Justice Strength
All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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Alone Feeling Let Go Reason

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