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No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
Painting is silent poetry.
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One Liner Poetry Silence
The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.
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Experience Knowledge Myself Strange True
The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.
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Atheist Believe Fear God Man
It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.
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Art Creation Deserve
May I never sit where it is impossible for me to get up and offer my seat to an older man?
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Impossible Man Myself
Come and take them.
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Minimalism One Liner
The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Man Time
Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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Creation Deep Music
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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Animal Live Philosophy Right
It’s a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man’s oration, it is a very easy matter, but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.
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Difficult Easy Greatness Man Place Produce
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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Death Nation Rich
But a man cannot by writing a bill of divorce to his vice get rid of all trouble at once, and enjoy tranquillity by living apart.
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Enjoyment Man Trouble Vice Writing
In a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer.
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Fantasy Season Talk Time Winter Word
I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be, and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.
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Literature Myself
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Philosophy Soul Spiritual

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