What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
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It is strange to talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains.
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How earthy old people become mouldy as the grave Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.
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... we should be men first, and subjects afterward.
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Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science.
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Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.
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