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“It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.”
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“Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.”
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“There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.”
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“There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul”
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“The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.”
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“Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.”
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“There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.”
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“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.”
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