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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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Break Forever Hope Loose Perish Soul Struggle
A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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Book Brain Criticism Man Rate Safety
It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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Hard Knowledge Limitation Subject
There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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Contrast Existence Quality World
The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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Growth Jaw Joy Sweet
A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Choice One Liner Smile Vehicle
For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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Horror Life Ocean Surround
When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
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Born Equality Freedom Legal Men Slave Writing
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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Age Death Life Man Old Wake Up
When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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Hard Time Inspirational Monster Trouble Wild Yourself
A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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Fact Incredible Reality True
Truth is in things, and not in words.
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Action One Liner Truth Word
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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Forever Free Future Government Past Religious Stand
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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Compromise Edge Ragged Truth
In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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Friendship Oneself Security
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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Animal Dog Help Ourselves Philosophy

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

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