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Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

Denis Diderot

The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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Book Greatness Literature Poet Taste
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
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Genius Madness Raise Status
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
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Anand Thakur
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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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
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
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Anand Thakur
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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Dignity Man Myself Willing
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

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