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This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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Courage Examination Myself Religion Sin Thinking
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Noble Past Reading Style Time Writing
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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Brain Fear Live Man Power Regain Religion Virtue Way Young
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Draw Face Husband Kill Public Room Wife
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Drink Eyes Love Ourselves Shine Stardom
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science

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