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Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water, suffices to kill him. But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this.
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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed
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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
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Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.
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Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is, but let us consider the two possibilities. If you gain, you gain all if you lose you lose nothing. Hesitate not, then, to wager that He is.
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Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.
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Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.
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Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
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Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
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Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
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It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.
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It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.
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It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.
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In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
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If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.
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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
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If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!
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If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
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If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
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If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.
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I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world
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I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
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