For there was need once more of a Divine Revelation to the torpid frivolous children of men, if they were not to sink altogether into the ape condition. And in that whirlwind of the Universe,—lights obliterated, and the torn wrecks of Earth and Hell hurled aloft into the Empyrean; black whirlwind, which made even apes serious, and drove most of them mad,—there was, to men, a voice audible; voice from the heart of things once more, as if to say: "Lying is not permitted in this Universe. The wages of lying, you behold, are death. Lying means damnation in this Universe; and Beelzebub, never so elaborately decked in crowns and mitres, is NOT God!" This was a revelation truly to be named of the Eternal, in our poor Eighteenth Century; and has greatly altered the complexion of said Century to the Historian ever since.


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The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because ...
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If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
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Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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The actual well seen is ideal.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same...
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The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough.
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The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in th...
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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in...
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Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since a...
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The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconsciou...
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Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can ...
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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History is the distillation of rumor.
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Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soa...
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Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
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Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest wer...
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All sorts of Heroes are intrinsically of the same material; that given a great soul, open to the Div...
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The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.
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The heart always sees before than the head can see.
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Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage ...
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
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If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare ...
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No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of littl...
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony ...
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For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities ...
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The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
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The Mystic Bond of Brotherhood makes all men one.
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No violent extreme endures.
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What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-toge...
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I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a gr...
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Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and kno...
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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