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The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.
Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.
Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.
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Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.
The author creates a book and the people accept or not accept it. The creator of a book is an author and the creator of it`s fate are people.
The word Gothic, in the sense in which it is generally employed, is wholly unsuitable, but wholly consecrated. Hence we accept it and we adopt it, like all the rest of the world, to characterize the architecture of the second half of the Middle Ages, where the ogive is the principle which succeeds the architecture of the first period, of which the semi-circle is the father.
Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.
An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart.
In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and ... entangling, from the highest to the lowest, all activities in the obscurity of a dizzying mechanism, hanging the flight of an insect upon the movement of the earth... Enormous gearing, whose first motor is the gnat, and whose last wheel is the zodiac.
A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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.
Progress is not accomplished in one stage.
There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.
To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.
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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
