The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
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Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
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Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.
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We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.
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Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
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Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.
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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.
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All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.
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Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.
