Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

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The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

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It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

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The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.

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Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.

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Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

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Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

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The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

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It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

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