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"For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God."
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"When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever."
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"I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol."
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"Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope."
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"Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth."
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