Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

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We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.

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Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.

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He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

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Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

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The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

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Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless one loves the truth, he cannot know it.

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When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.

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Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

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