"I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both."
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"Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself."
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"The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly."
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"Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own."
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"Purity of heart is to will one thing."
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"At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference."
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“The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.”
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"One can advise comfortably from a safe port."
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"I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this."
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“Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.”
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"There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming."
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"It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite."
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"Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate."
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"Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good."
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"Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further."
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"How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech."
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"The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes."
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