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“I think the reason children get tired of their toys so soon is just that it is against human nature to be really interested in what is of no use.”

— George MacDonald

“Let us not believe that our soul is a portion of the divine nature, as some philosophers have dreamed. God is not a whole that can be shared out.”

— Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

“It's guid to be merry and wise, It's guid to be honest and true, It's guid to support Caledonia's cause And bide by the buff and the blue.”

— Robert Burns

“It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.”

— Ben Jonson

“I never thought an angry person valiant: Virtue is never aided by a vice.”

— Ben Jonson

“While Memory watches o'er the sad review Of joys that faded like the morning dew.”

— Thomas Campbell

“Melt and dispel, ye spectre-doubts, that roll Cimmerian darkness o'er the parting soul!”

— Thomas Campbell

“Some one came knocking At my wee, small door; Some one came knocking, I’m sure—sure—sure.”

— Walter de la Mare

“Those who affirm it have been duped by illusions, by ill-conducted experiments, spoilt by errors that they either did not perceive or did not know how to avoid.”

— Louis Pasteur

“Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and who obeys it: ideal of art, ideal of science, ideal of the gospel virtues, therein lie the springs of great thoughts…”

— Louis Pasteur

“Though one discovery always surpasses another, and though the chemical and physical knowledge accumulated since his time has gone beyond all Lavoisier's dreams, his work, like…”

— Louis Pasteur

“God grant that by my persevering labours I may bring a little stone to the frail and ill-assured edifice of our knowledge of those deep mysteries of Life and Death where all our…”

— Louis Pasteur

“My philosophy is of the heart and not of the mind, and I give myself up, for instance, to those feelings about eternity which come naturally at the bedside of a cherished child…”

— Louis Pasteur

“Young men, have confidence in those powerful and safe methods, of which we do not yet know all the secrets.”

— Louis Pasteur

“I assert once again as a truth to which history as a whole bears witness that men may second their fortune, but cannot oppose it; that they may weave its warp, but cannot break it.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“No proceeding is better than that which you have concealed from the enemy until the time you have executed it.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Greater than all European philosophies, it is even capable of adjusting itself to the vast hypotheses of modern science.”

— Romain Rolland

“India, ever mindful of the natural differences in souls and in philosophies, endeavors to blend them into each other, so as to recreate in its fullest perfection the complete…”

— Romain Rolland

“The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it.”

— Italo Calvino

“The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure…”

— Italo Calvino

“But those few pages already enclose for me whole universes, which I can never exhaust.”

— Italo Calvino

“The sea, unmated creature, tired and lone, Makes on its desolate sands eternal moan.”

— Frederick William Faber

“Yesterday This Day's Madness did prepare; To-morrow's Silence, Triumph, or Despair: Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.”

— Omar Khayyam

“Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close! The Nightingale that in the Branches sang, Ah, whence, and whither flown again…”

— Omar Khayyam

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