I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.
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There they are cutting each other's throats, because one half of them prefer hiring their servants for life, and the other by the hour.
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Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect.
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For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.
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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
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