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Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.

Denis Diderot

It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
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Love Rob
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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Feeling Instrument Memories Object Surround
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge, observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
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Combination Experiment Knowledge Principle Reflection Result
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Anand Thakur
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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Anand Thakur
It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
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Difficult God Home Raining
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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Creative Experiment Genius Nature Observation
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur

Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.

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