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He who has lost only those of whose faith and truth he is sure, has not yet reached the depth of human desolation.

— Evelyn Beatrice Hall The Friends of Voltaire (1906)

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There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.

The Friends of Voltaire (1906)

All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot.

The Friends of Voltaire (1906)

It is by character and not by intellect the world is won.

The Friends of Voltaire (1906)

A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.

The Friends of Voltaire (1906)

For the first time he looked into his heart and wrote, and thus for the first time he touched the hearts of others; the cold style took fire, and beneath the clumsy periods welled tears.

The Friends of Voltaire (1906)

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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