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names religion sects
Sects differ more in name than tenets.
men yield sound
Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.
light originals
There is nothing original; all is reflected light.
men instinct born
Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.
pain shadow world
For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?
men reign mischief
Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
pain men suffering
Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.
strong past creative
To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh.
spiritual memories links
The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences which the spirit alone remembers, for Matter has no memory for spiritual things.
love two sorrow
Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
spiritual angel science
Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains; while the angelic spirit sees and understands. Science saddens man; love enraptures the angel; science is still seeking; love has found.
men judging feelings
If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man's life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool's notion of history.
strong creative secret
Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
country paris trying
The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.