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If you are cheerful, and wish to remain so, leave the study of astronomy alone. Of all the sciences, it alone deserves the character of the terrible.

— Thomas Hardy Two on a Tower (1882)

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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons!

Jude the Obscure (1895)

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

The Hand of Ethelberta (1876)

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891)

The place became full of a watchful intentness now; for when other things sank blooding to sleep the heath appeared slowly to awake and listen.

The Return of the Native (1878)

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

Science and religion are two human enterprises sharing many features.

Freeman Dyson Infinite in All Directions (1988)

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

Henri Poincaré Science and Hypothesis (1901)

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