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No faith has triumphed without its martyrs.

— Émile de Girardin A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

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There is more poverty in the human heart than misery in life.

A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

Servility is to devotion what hypocrisy is to virtue.

A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

Whenever the good done to us does not touch and penetrate the heart, it wounds and irritates our vanity.

A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

Instruction is to the proletary what liberty is to the slave: the latter emancipates the body, the former emancipates the intelligence.

A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls.

A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

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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.

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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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