Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.
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God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul.
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To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present to have done great things together to wish to do greater these are the essential conditions which make up a people
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Man makes holy what he believes, as he makes beautiful what he loves.
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You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect.
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Let us pardon him his hope of a vain apocalypse, and of a second coming in great triumph upon the clouds of heaven. Perhaps these were the errors of others rather than his own and if it be true that he himself shared the general illusion, what matters it, since his dream rendered him strong against death, and sustained him in a struggle to which he might otherwise have been unequal
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