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I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.

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The leopard does not change his spots.

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What matters it to me if someone does not understand this? Let him too rejoice and say, “What is this?” Let him rejoice even at this, and let him love to find you while not finding it out, rather than, while finding it out, not to find you.

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What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.

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Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption.

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He who does not answer the questions has passed the test.

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Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.

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Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend to build up this twofold love of God and our neighbor, does not yet understand them as he ought.

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When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify.

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He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

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Swaraj as conceived by me does not mean the end of kingship.

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The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.

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He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.

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There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as the sin of avarice.

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The opinion of the world does not affect me. I have placed as the real values in my life what follows when I am dead.

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Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.

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The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.

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He who loves does not dispute: He who disputes does not love.

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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.

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He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life.

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