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Correspondent Inspirational Quotes (1588)

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Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus.
Francis Pharcellus Church
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The animals you eat are not those who devour others you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only hunger for the sweet and gentle creatures which harm no one, which follow you, serve you, and are devoured by you as the reward of their service.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
Denis Diderot
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Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success, but merely being willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth they seek lies there.
Rene Descartes
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One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry.
James Fenton
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Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
Voltaire
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And the pressure to clarify what exactly is happening to Christians and other minorities in the Middle East is certain to intensify in the New Year.
Tom Gjelten
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Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the source of the sacred fire which so often inflamed us with love of the sublime virtues that is where you will see the eternal image of true beauty, the contemplation of which inspires us with a holy enthusiasm.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Too much apparatus, designed to guide us in experiments and to supplement the exactness of our senses, makes us neglect to use those senses...The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses. We surround ourselves with tools and fail to use those which nature has provided every one of us.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
Voltaire
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Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.
Voltaire
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The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
Rene Descartes
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Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
Rene Descartes
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There's a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
Denis Diderot
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The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.
Madame de Stael
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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me I see Him all around me.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Not Shakespeare. In college I took a Shakespeare class because I was an English major, and they had a Summer program called Shakespeare at Winedale, which is out in the German Hill country in Texas , where you go out and live for two months and then you perform three plays at the end of that time.
Jenna Bush
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The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November.
Peter Jennings
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Hence reason also demands that, since our thoughts cannot all be true because we are not wholly perfect, what truth they do possess must inevitably be found in the thoughts we have when awake, rather than in our dreams.
Rene Descartes
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
Charles Kuralt
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To make America great is about, hey, this country's in trouble. By doing things the old-fashioned way, I'm going to bring in people, deal-makers, who know how to change things dramatically.
Paul Solman
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women have no existence except in love the history of their life begins and ends with love!
Madame de Stael
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