“Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.”
Men“Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.”
Intelligence“Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.”
Men“The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.”
Beauty“Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.”
God“Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.”
Art“Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.”
Men“To love beauty is to see light.”
Beauty“Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.”
Poetry“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.”
Courage“There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.”
Time“Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.”
Time“Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.”
Education“Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.”
Society“Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?”
Men“A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.”
Faith“Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.”
Peace“Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.”
God“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
God“The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.”
God“I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!”
Art“What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.”
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