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Conscience is God present in man. ”
Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful. ”
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other. ”
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. ”
Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left. ”
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. ”
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. ”
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. ”
The reactions of organic magnesium compounds are of two kinds - reactions of substitution and reactions of addition. ”
What I realized was how difficult an hour show is and how miserable you can be if you're not happy doing it. ”