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“ To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin. ”

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The soul is like an uninhabited worldthat comes to life only whenGod lays His headagainst us.

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Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

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The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.

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Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

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