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Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.

Denis Diderot

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
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
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
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Believe God Important
The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Anand Thakur
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can’t deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
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Essential Kind Respect Wicked Yourself
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
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
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
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
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
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Animal Guide Instinct Intelligence Reason
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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Demand Finding Oneself Seek Truth
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
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Design Disturb Trouble True

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