"Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it."
-Jean Paul
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"Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.“
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"Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another."
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"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."
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"What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease."
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"God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul."
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"Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray."
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"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
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"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."
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"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
-Immanuel Kant
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