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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Blaise Pascal

Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
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Confusion Unity
Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
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Greatness Small Suffering
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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Evil Inspirational Religious Sad
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
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
We never love a person, but only qualities.
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Deep Love Person Quality
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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Accomplishment Character Kindness
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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Beyond Logic Men Reason
Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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Easy Evil Infinite
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
How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
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Heart Hollow Men
There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
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God Heart Spiritual
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.
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Believe Faith Life Light
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
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Establishment Love Spiritual Time Truth
What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
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Difference God Himself Love
We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.
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Eyes People Reality Satisfaction

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