I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen.
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This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
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Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
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Over the times thou hast no power.... Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest.
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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
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Virtue, like health, is the harmony of the whole man.
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