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All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

Blaise Pascal

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
Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.
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Endurance Fade Limitation
Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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Easy Evil Infinite
Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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Cheat Foundation
Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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Happiness Human Quiet Silence
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
I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn’t than live as if he doesn’t exist to find out He does.
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Existence God Himself Live Myself
Don’t try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.
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Death Life Suicide
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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Beyond Logic Men Reason
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
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Divine Human Love Religion
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
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Discover Intelligence Men Reality
Most of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.
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Ability Men Trouble
Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.
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Fear Yourself
The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.
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God Men Nature Religion Worth
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
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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Heart Inspirational Life Love Reason
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
We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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Human Limitation Wisdom
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
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
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
Imagination decides everything.
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Imagination Inspirational One Liner
The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
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Act Inspirational Strength Wisdom
We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.
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Men Seek Truth Value
Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
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Greatness Lying Man Power
All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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Alone Feeling Let Go Reason
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
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Force Justice Power Strength

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