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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

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God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.

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There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

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A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn; hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.

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They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness.

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If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.

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In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it is cold, night falls, time passes, forests and multitudes speak, the vast eternal dream hovers over all. Sap and blood, all forms of the multiple reality, actions and ideas, man and humanity, the living and the life, solitudes, cities, religions, diamonds and pearls, dung-hills and charnelhouses, the ebb and flow of beings, the steps of comers and goers, all, all are on Shakespeare and in Shakespeare.

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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

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The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.

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If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head.

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It is an unpleasant thing to go to bed without supper, it is a still less pleasant thing not to sup and not to know where one is to sleep.

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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

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Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.

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Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the tap of a swallow's bill breaking the egg, and it leads forward the birth of an earth-worm and the advent of Socrates.

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If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.

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There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.

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If you are leaving that sorrowful place with hate and anger against men, you are worthy of compassion; if you leave it with good will, gentleness and peace, you are better than any of us.

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There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.

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