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God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.
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Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier.
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Thus even love, which is the deification of persons, must become more impersonal every day.
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The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.
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Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
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A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc.
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Work rather for those interests which the divinities honor and promote,--justice, love, freedom, knowledge, utility.