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How sublime is the audacious tautology of Mohammed, God is God!
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Ah, could the soul, like the body, have a mirror! It has,--a friend.
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A fretful fancy is constantly flinging its possessor into gratuitous tophets.
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God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe.
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Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.
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Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.
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In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease: Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace Whose inhabitants have the eternal release.
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The God of merely traditional believers is the great Absentee of the universe.
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Tears are the tribute of humanity to its destiny.
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Public opinion is a second conscience.
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In the nine heavens are eight Paradises Where is the ninth one? In the human breast. Only the blessed dwell in th' Paradises, But blessedness dwells in the human breast.
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Every man is his own greatest dupe.
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The human heart has a sigh lonelier than the cry of the bittern.
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Of all the portions of life it is in the two twilights, childhood and age, that tears fall with the most frequency like the dew at dawn and eve.
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A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.
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The most terrible of all things is terror.
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Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.
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The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.
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Laws are the silent assessors of God.
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He who is master of all opinions can never be the bigot of any.
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